Word: setbacks
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...Harvard women's tennis team suffered a setback this weekend, dropping two matches at the ITCA Northeast Team Championships at Princeton. This indoor tourney knocked the Crimson down to the fourth spot in the East...
Robinson's aggressive p.r. tactics have sometimes misfired. In the tangled fight for RJR Nabisco, she failed to soften the reckless bravado of client Ross Johnson in his abortive attempt to buy the food and tobacco company he headed. The defeat was a setback for her husband too. American Express's Shearson Lehman unit had bankrolled Johnson, and Jim Robinson had worked closely on the deal. More recently, she sought to portray Milken as a misunderstood benefactor of the poor. But the campaign had little impact on perceptions of the junk man, who is serving a 10-year sentence...
Salerno also said that confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court was a "setback...
...rare political setback for Israel, top congressional leaders announced last week that they would delay action on an "urgent" request that Washington guarantee $10 billion in loans from Western banks to provide housing and services for the 1 million Soviet emigres who are expected to resettle in the Jewish state. This would be in addition to the $3 billion in U.S. economic and military aid already extended this year...
...also the age of the all-purpose victim: the individual or group whose plight, condition or even momentary setback is not a matter that needs be solved by individual effort but constitutes a social problem in itself. "We're not to blame, we're victims" is the increasingly assertive rallying cry of groups who see the American dream not as striving fulfilled but as unachieved entitlement. Crybabyhood is all blame, no pain, for gain. And all too often it works...