Word: setbacks
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...campaign appeal to "send the government a reminder." But Kohl and his ministers had little cause to celebrate: the Free Democratic Party, the small but pivotal junior partner in the governing coalition, took such a beating that it appeared to be threatened with extinction. Responding to the election setback, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher announced that he would step down as leader of the Free Democrats early next year to enable the party to develop "a new image with a new face...
...time, tensions from last month's rioting among Hindus and Muslims in Bombay had built to such a degree that politicians began questioning Mrs. Gandhi's control over the country. There was speculation that further instability could cause her governing Congress (I) Party to suffer a serious setback in the national elections scheduled to be held by next January...
This rejection marked a definite setback for the subject at Harvard, because, according to committee coordinator Judith A. Kates, the tenure process must begin all over with the initial process of individual department nomination of candidates...
...diplomat in Managua: "For once, the Sandinistas seem to be handling the situation in a mature and sophisticated fashion." Another explanation might be that the Nicaraguan regime was simply biding its time while the Reagan Administration's policy in Central America teetered on the verge of a grave setback...
Harvard professors see withholding information from print as potentially a great scientific setback...