Word: setbacks
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Hart's impressive victory is a major setback for Mondale, who was so confident of victory here that he spent most of the last three days out of the state Mondale had been considered one of the strongest Democratic front runners in recent decades, and many analysts had expected him to lock up the nomination long before the party's San Francisco convention this summer...
Cranston who had put much of his resources into Iowa was dealt a major setback with his fourth place finish Cranston, who had hoped to use a strong Iowa showing to slingshot his candidacy beyond dark horse status was even weaker in New Hampshire...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard lost at Clarkson, 4-1, January 7, the night after a 4-3 overtime setback at St. Lawrence. Harvard trailed Clarkson by only one goal with 10 minutes left in the game...
...children, Ethel II, died of an overdose of alcohol and barbiturates in 1967. Although she made notable TV shows, especially with Broadway Star Mary Martin, Merman had only modest success in the movies, where her outsize performances sometimes seemed unreal. In perhaps the worst career setback, her role in the film of Gypsy went to Rosalind Russell...
...African friends by raising oil prices by 1000 per cent during the Yom Kippur War, thus unleashing havoc on most Third World economies Money originally allocated for agricultural and industrial projects had to be suddenly diverted to meet soaring energy bills. The consequence of OPEC's banditry is the setback of the development process by at least a decade. The world refused to blame the Arab dominated OPEC for much of the Third World's plight and African countries have only recently begun to encourage Israeli brainpower and investment in their attempt to rescue their ravaged economies...