Word: defeated
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...results from the rest of the country were...sobering," said McCain organizer Mattie Germer '03 after her candidate's defeat. "It was tough to take, but that's the way politics goes. The American public spoke and that's what we'll have to accept...
...felt that we had a candidate we really believed in and that makes a huge difference," said Rachel E. Taylor '03 after Bradley's Super Tuesday defeat...
...that the victory was about more than money. And it's not as if his opponent, former New Jersey governor Jim Florio - who raised and spent less than $3 million - had a visibility problem. He was the devil New Jerseyans knew, and they told him where to go. In defeat, Florio called his vanquisher "a threat to democracy," but will still support Corzine against a Republican closer to Florio's own tax bracket, Bob Franks. Hardly the makings of a crusade...
...were still in place last week when Ethiopian troops finally retook the town. The military operation was an important one: using a well-orchestrated pincer movement, Ethiopian generals squeezed the Eritrean army like a tube of toothpaste, forcing the exhausted Eritrean soldiers back into their own territory--a deep defeat...
...While the legal battle grinds on to what appears to be an inevitable defeat for the Miami relatives and their supporters, the political battlefield has gone quiet. The attention of the American public and its elected representatives has moved on, with two thirds of the electorate having consistently favored Juan Miguel Gonzalez's right to take his son home and once-angry legislators having quietly allowed plans for a congressional inquiry into the Easter Saturday raid on the Little Havana home to drift off into the ether. The story that had supplanted the death of Princess Diana and stood second...