Word: setbacks
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...shocked the football hero was when he learned his ex-wife had been murdered. But a neighborhood witness testified that he saw a white sport vehicle -- possibly Simpson's Bronco-speed away from the crime scene (though somewhat later than fits the prosecution's time scenario). In another defense setback, the judge refused to allow testimony suggesting that drug hit men were the killers, ruling that the theory was "highly speculative...
...defense sent a parade of witnesses to the stand to testify thatO.J. Simpson appeared to be completely at easeon a flight to Chicago he boarded not long after Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered. Earlier, the defense team suffered a setback in its effort to present a theory that the murders were committed by drug dealers when Judge Lance Ito refused to allow the testimony of Christian Reichardt, the former boyfriend of Nicole's sometime houseguest Faye Resnick. Reichardt's testimony that Resnick's drug use had left her deeply in debt to dealers was crucial to the defense...
Showing they might still constitute a force to be reckoned with, the liberals brought Kennedy and O'Connor over to their side for a 6-to-3 ruling last week. In a setback for the timber interests that brought the suit, the court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had not exceeded the intent of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 when it forbade modification or destruction of wildlife habitats on private land. With Congress in the process of rewriting the Endangered Species Act, even that could be a short-lived victory...
...vote the Justices ruled that legislative districts drawn with race as the "predominant" motivating factor should generally be struck down. Black officials, many of whom owe their first-time election to racially conscious redistricting, were stunned and outraged. President Clinton called the ruling a "setback...
...JUST AS WELL SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH HASN'T given up his day job. His brief life as an author has been one setback after another. First he saw his $4.5 million advance drop to one buck to avoid the appearance of impropriety, though his agent is still due her $675,000 commission from his royalties. And now, thanks to last week's warning from the House ethics committee,he has to pay for the book tour out of his own pocket...