Word: setbacks
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...industrialist, fell short of the 50 percent majority he needs to win. His opponent is Republican Front leader Alfonso Portillo, the hand-picked choice of former dictator Efrain Rios. "This election is being closely watched by the international community, which fears that a Portillo victory would mean a serious setback for democracy," TIME's Mike Leffert reports from Guatemala City. "Business is also worried that a Portillo win could threaten privatization projects and guarantees for property rights." Weary of their country's 35-year-old civil war, some Guatamalans are beginning to yearn for a return to the militaristic, authoritarianism...
...embarrassing setback for the G.O.P. leadership, the House voted to instruct its team of conference negotiators with the Senate to drop a string of restrictions on the Environmental Protection Agency that the House had previously attached to an EPA spending bill. Moderate Republicans joined ranks with Democrats to repudiate the controversial restrictions, which would severely curtail the agency's enforcement of air- and water-quality laws...
...year, and four out of five within four years. The reason: selling life insurance involves having the door slammed in your face over and over again. Was it possible to identify which people would be better at handling frustration and take each refusal as a challenge rather than a setback...
...swimmer Matt Biondi turned in two disappointing performances in his first two races. Before the Games, Biondi had been favored to win seven golds--as Mark Spitz had done 16 years earlier. After those first two races, most commentators thought Biondi would be unable to recover from his setback. Not Seligman. He had given some members of the U.S swim team a version of his optimism test before the races; it showed that Biondi possessed an extraordinarily upbeat attitude. Rather than losing heart after turning in a bad time, as others might, Biondi tended to respond by swimming even faster...
Harvard had no injuries after facing Columbia a week ago, but the Crimson suffered a setback in practice when starting linebacker Brian Cohen went down on Tuesday. Senior Dean Fanikos will replace Cohen...