Word: setbacks
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Clarkson Coach Bill O' Flaberty blamed his team's setback on that middle period. "When you're playing your best, you need more than one [goal]," O'Flaberty said. "That's why Blair's one of the top goaltenders in the league...
Before the attack, officials had been convinced that the I.R.A. was on the wane. Despite the Brighton explosion, the organization had seemed to suffer one setback after another, starting with the September interception by the Irish navy of a trawler loaded with seven tons of arms and ammunition for the I.R.A. In December British soldiers ambushed and killed two I.R.A. gunmen, and last month the FitzGerald government seized more than $1.6 million in suspected I.R.A. bank assets in Dublin...
...setback dropped Harvard (17-6-2 overall, 14-5-1 ECAC) into a tie for third in the ECAC...
...means. More important, if the University were to divest of all of its holdings in operations in South Africa, all of Harvard's stock would be purchased by other institutional investors who generally care only about the bottom line. The corporation in question would not suffer a substantial setback, and Harvard will have done nothing measurable to fight apartheid. In fact, complete divestiture may do more to support the apartheid regime than anything Harvard has done in the past. For Harvard, along with several other concerned universities, is one of the most responsible shareholders around...
...major setback to the program is the fact that Falasha refugees in Sudan have blended into the anonymity of the camps and are sharing in the tragic fate of their other occupants. Relief officials estimate that at least 2,000 of them have died since their migration to Sudan began last spring. Nimeiri's offer to allow the evacuation of Falasha refugees to nations other than Israel did not draw any immediate criticism from fellow members of the Arab League. But at least one Arab leader put Israel on notice that it must not permit those who migrate to Israel...