Word: setbacks
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Nazi hunters acknowledged that the decision was a severe setback for their cause. The fact that five Treblinka survivors had possibly misidentified Demjanjuk was bound to devalue the future testimony of aging concentration- camp survivors. The fact that a court in Israel, which has such an emotional stake in the Holocaust, had ruled in a suspected Nazi collaborator's favor was bound to discourage already reluctant countries such as Australia and Canada from continuing to pursue suspected war criminals...
...recent setback from Marriott's division of its stock is only the latest in a series of blunders that have plagued HMC. The university has a 12% stake in Marriott preferred shares, worth about $35 million. (Incidentally, dividends on this investment to date cannot even pay Meyer's salary.) In an upcoming split, announced last fall, Marriott will become two different companies, Marriott International and Host Marriott of which the latter will absorb most of the company's $2.9 billion debt. The terms of this split, made clear in March, will stop dividends on the preferred stock and allow conversion...
...again effort to raise the fees businesses pay for such activities as mining and cattle grazing on federal land. Those proposals were originally part of Clinton's budget plan, but the President backed away from the idea after members of Congress from Western states squawked. Babbitt sees the setback as a temporary retreat and vows to raise land-use fees gradually through administrative actions and support for legislation...
...unexpected setback for pro-abortion-rights forces in Congress, the House voted 255 to 178 to maintain the Hyde amendment -- the 16-year-old ban on Medicaid funding of abortions for poor women, except when the mother's life is jeopardized and in cases of rape or incest. The Senate could still revise the language...
...setback left business leaders and jet-setters abuzz over the billionaire's misfortunes. Says Baron Edmond de Rothschild, patriarch of the French banking dynasty: "Karim, like so many others, has been caught in a cyclical downturn more severe than any we have seen in Europe since the end of World...