Word: setbacks
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...biggest setback came in California, where Proposition 128, Big Green, was defeated almost 2 to 1. A second measure, Forests Forever, designed to ban clear-cutting and save old-growth forests and redwoods, lost by a narrower margin. In part they fell victim to a backlash against the sheer number of ballot propositions -- 28 in all -- that Californians had to contend with in the voting booth. "They voted no on everything," laments Lynn Sadler, campaign director for Forests Forever. Big Green was a ballot buster all by itself, a 16,000-word laundry list of aims, including...
Although no one at last night's session expressed reservations about a women's center, Soble said that one alumna had concerns that "separate things for women would be a step backwards, a setback to a time when women had less rather than more...
...George Bush obviously has had a little setback on the polls but he's still the most popular president going into midterm elections in modern times," said Ed Rollins, the top political adviser to House Republicans...
...Havel's moderation suffered a setback last week when Klaus easily defeated the President's candidate to become the new chairman of the Civic Forum alliance. Although aides admitted the vote was a blow to the President, Havel's response was statesmanlike. He invited Klaus for a beer and called in the press to photograph them drinking happily together...
...situation does not look so bleak. The Hubble blunder is a serious setback, but NASA engineers have found ways to computer-enhance the telescope's images so that they are not as blurry as the first ones received. More important, in the 12 years it took to develop and launch the Hubble, the technology of ground-based telescopes has rapidly improved. In fact, techniques under development could enable earthbound telescopes to do many things the Hubble was supposed...