Word: setbacks
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Republican Chair Rich Bond, however, saw theNew York results as "a huge victory for PaulTsongas and a big setback for Bill Clinton." Bondcalled the election "a big win for thebroker-convention crowd," suggesting that othermajor Democrats like House Majority Leader RichardGerhardt of Missouri and New York Gov. Mario Cuomowere standing by, waiting to jump in the race...
Harvard's only setback that stunning season was a heartbreaking 47-42 defeat at the hands of Holy Cross...
...that invested $562.5 million in the company in exchange for minority ownership. Turner remained chairman, but he was forced to give cable operators seven seats on the 15-member board and veto power over any decision that would cost the company more than $2 million. It was a major setback for a man who lived by his father's homespun sermons, including the idea, in Wussler's words, that "you hang on to as much of your business as you can yourself...
...Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa hangs on to his post, he is not likely to have many weeks as bad as the last one. Along with a sharp drop in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, declining approval ratings in the polls, and insinuations of financial wrongdoings, he suffered a particularly disappointing setback when parliament effectively killed a government measure to let Japanese soldiers serve overseas in United Nations peacekeeping operations. After harsh criticism in the West for Japan's failure to participate in the gulf coalition against Iraq, Miyazawa was determined to ease his country's strict limitations on military service abroad...
...result was the same, though, as the Harvard men's basketball team suffered its seventh straight setback to begin the season...