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Behind this setback, however, was Europe's agreement to throw open its $20 billion electric-utility market in exchange for Community access to the Tennessee Valley Authority and five other federal power administrations. Both sides say the compromise should allow them to focus on more important issues, like agriculture, still dividing them in the stalled Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
Educators urging students to hit the books received a horrible setback. During a Chicago Bulls home game, spectator Don Calhoun, an Indiana salesman, was randomly chosen to try a wildly improbable promotional stunt: sink a basket from the opposite foul line, 75 ft. away. Amazingly, Calhoun swished the shot and grabbed the prize: $1 million...
According to yesterday's Herald, the proposed budget cuts include "a nearly $1 million cut in funding for the Woods Hole marine biology lab, which lawmakers described as an unexpected setback...
...This is a setback," said Lao President Julia M. Reyes '94. "But it's not dampening our spirits altogether...we're not going to stop struggling...
Peter MacDonald's 14-year effort to build an independent Navajo Nation for America's largest Indian tribe was hobbled by repeated run-ins with the law. His latest setback: a 14 1/2-year sentence from a Phoenix federal judge for his role in a 1989 riot at the tribe's Window Rock, Arizona, headquarters, where two of his supporters were killed. MacDonald, 64, will serve the term concurrently with previous sentences: five years from a 1992 federal racketeering case and seven years from a 1990 case in which he was convicted by a tribal court of accepting kickbacks and bribes...