Word: resurrect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates arrives at the University this fall to resurrect the department and put it on its feet, after years of stagnation and failed efforts to recruit new faculty...
...raise eyebrows in the West; better yet, Iraqi industry could produce most of the necessary components itself. Calutrons gulp enormous amounts of electricity, and the power lines to supply it should have been visible in satellite photographs. But since nobody in the West dreamed that Saddam would resurrect calutron technology, the interpreters of satellite pictures, if they saw such evidence, failed to understand what they were looking...
Yeltsin has promised to resurrect private farming on a grand scale, making land available to every peasant who wants to till his own fields rather than toil for a collective or state farm. Russia already has a private-property law on the books, though Gorbachev gags at endorsing one for the whole Soviet Union. Yeltsin promises to strengthen it and to bring about the "rebirth of entrepreneurship," promoting the formation and expansion of privately owned companies in "any business." Further, he proposes departizatsiya, or departification, meaning that the ubiquitous Communist Party committees should have nothing to do with running factories...
Will these extravagant promotions resurrect the tourism trade? "Consumer fundamentals remain weak," Cammisa warns. His advice to industry professionals: "Don't fix the hotel or paint the ship for the people who are coming. They aren't going to be coming." But Cammisa's gloom may prove misguided. American Airlines booked 1 million reservations in the first week after it lowered its prices in mid-March. American Express reports that the low airfares are working so well that its travel agents are having trouble finding space on flights to Europe...
Harvard, at least for the moment, has pinned its hopes to resurrect the Afro-American Studies Department on one scholar: Duke's Henry Louis Gates...