Word: setbacks
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...verdict was the first major setback for federal prosecutors in New York after several victories in recent organized-crime cases. In the last six months, the heads of the city's four other Mafia families, the Genovese, Lucchese, Bonnano and Colombo organizations, have been convicted...
Despite this setback Di Cara and Goldman said that Flynn has had a good first term in office and as a result will face little opposition...
...think that putting astronauts into space is a wasteful extravaganza, you won't swallow the conclusions McConnell reaches in his epilogue. He believes that the destiny of mankind lies in the stars, and that the Challenger accident should be understood as only a setback, however tragic, to our colonization of space...
Ironically, the last league setback for the Crimson came two year ago in the same Sheerr Pool, when an upset-minded Quaker team stunned Harvard in a similar situation, right before Easterns...
...Aquino, the incident triggered the worst crisis her eleven-month-old government has faced since a military coup attempt last November that fizzled before it got off the ground. Two hours after the marines opened fire at the bridge, word reached Malacanang of a further setback: talks had broken off between the government and the National Democratic Front, the political wing of the Communist New People's Army (N.P.A.) in the effort to end the Philippines' 18-year-old insurgency. Leftists as well as rightists quickly seized on the setbacks to launch attacks on the President...