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...Cambridge-based biotechnology firm Biogen, Inc. suffered a major setback this week, as the firm announced that it will stop most work on a the blood-thinning drug hirulog...
Tomassoni is also using this game to rest a couple of injured players. Michael Breistroff, back from a year on the French National team, will sit out the game, as well at Stuart Swenson, both with nagging lower-body injuries. An unfortunate setback for Harvard is Geordie Hyland, a highly touted freshman who has just been diagnosed with mononucleosis and will miss an undisclosed amount of time...
...abrupt turnaround in a war it had been losing, the Muslim-led Bosnian government launched its biggest successful offensive in over two years, driving 5,000 Serbs from a northwest region. The loss was a major setback for the Serbs whose political fortunes have been deteriorating as well in recent weeks. A U.N. spokesman said the Serb forces "crumbled" as they abandoned equipment. U.N. relief workers were attempting to bring in food and other...
Whatever the setback, Vallier says he will continue to be firm and fair. There is no other way, he adds, to improve the department's traditionally low morale...
...setback was equally unsettling to the White House. Since taking office, Bill Clinton has consistently been successful as a champion of increased foreign trade, one of the few areas where he has earned his stripes as a New Democrat. He first toughened George Bush's strategy toward closed Japanese markets and, after some hesitation, took on his own party's left wing when he fought for -- and won -- congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement...