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Against the weaker Polar Bears, the Crimson (2-0 overall) was able to give JV players a chance to earn varsity letters. Paula Rand, Kathy Shergalis and Lesley Chang--who suffered Harvard's only setback--all moved up to the big-time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Squash Ices Polar Bears, 8-1 | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

Despite last week's setback in San Francisco, homosexual lovers are winning rights as "domestic partners," with resulting health, tax and housing benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 21 NOVEMBER 20, 1989 | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...been more than 14 years since the last Americans were lifted off the embassy roof in Saigon, a televised vignette of ignominy that is still replayed in the U.S.'s memory. Now Viet Nam has suffered its own setback: after more than a decade of trying to defeat a rural insurgency in Cambodia, a Vietnamese expeditionary force has given up and gone home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America: Abroad The Debacle Deepens | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

McKay's rejection represents an unexpected setback for the department, whose administrators had billed the tenure offer as part of an effort to reinvigorate Afro-Am here...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Literary Expert Nixes Afro-Am Tenure Offer | 10/4/1989 | See Source »

Foley and the once powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, suffered a stinging setback when six committee Democrats joined all 13 Republicans to help Bush redeem a campaign pledge to reduce this tax. Although Democrats denounced the idea in last year's presidential campaign as a giveaway to the rich (60% of its benefits will go to people with incomes of more than $200,000), the measure is expected to pass in the House. Mitchell vows to try to derail it in the Senate, but he is without the support of Texas' Lloyd Bentsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . And on Capitol Hill | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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