Word: setbacks
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...have to do is stand in Dhahran and look at the huge amounts of equipment we were bringing in there. If they had launched a persistent chemical attack that had denied the port of Dammam to us, obviously this would have been a major setback. Or take Riyadh air base -- you know three good fighter planes making a run down there could have taken out huge assets. But once the air campaign started, his air force went away, so I no longer worried about Dhahran and Riyadh...
Palestinians blame everyone but themselves for their latest setback, failing to acknowledge that the enormous political and financial damage they are suffering is largely self-inflicted. By siding with Saddam, they lost sympathy and support among the allies, both Western and Arab, and handed Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir a propaganda windfall. Unless they quickly face up to their mistakes, they will miss a unique opportunity to press their case in postwar negotiations...
...Good Life came early. Harvard won its first five league games, four of them on the road, before being handed its first loss, a 75-59 setback at the hands of Princeton on February 2 at Jadwin Gym. The Crimson returned to Good-Life form on Friday night of the next weekend, downing Brown 90-77 at Briggs Cage...
Although a sense of urgency pervades this book, one realizes that Sakharov acknowledges many personal accomplishments, even if he has failed to fulfill all of his plans. At every turn Sakharov describes another setback for perestroika and predicts that without real reform the Soviet Union will descend into anarchy or renewed despotism. He specifically warns against increasing the Soviet government's authority, even if the head of the central government is the architect of perestroika...
...been chastised in the past for the restlessness and impatience with which | their nation conducts its affairs, the majority of Americans seem to regard the battle as a duty that must be borne. There is little war fever that could turn into panic in the face of a temporary setback. If the public changes its mind, it would be only after the war bogged down in an inconclusive quagmire...