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...Crimson have. After the Florida win, it cruised through the rest of its season, losing only to Princeton. Its only setback was qualifying only two swimmers for nationals, seniors Tim Carver and Jan Esway...
Zobel's restraining order is a setback for supporters of Question 9. But anti-rent control leaders denounced the suit yesterday...
...setback to several positive developments in recent weeks on the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang has rejected Seoul's offer of investment and direct trade. "Cooperation and confrontation are incompatible," Pyongyang's Central News Agency said in a dispatch. The report was the North's first response to the South Korean initiative for economic cooperation announced Monday after a 50-year hands-off policy. So, while the possibility of direct trade between the two countries appears to be flagging, indirect trade through third parties -- which North Korea hasn't blocked -- is flourishing. In the first eight months of this year, it soared...
Since hockey has always been an enormous part of his everyday life, Konik's injury was an unexpected setback to an already-impressive career...
...Biogen officials are putting a positive spin on the setback, which has forced the company to take a $25 million pretax charge against its earnings, eliminating profits for the third quarter of the fiscal year...