Word: setbacks
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...setback marked Harvard's fourth straight narrow defeat and brought the squad's final record to 12-14 overall, 4-10 in the Ivy League. A season of near misses--eight losses by six points or fewer--ended with one of the nearest misses...
...winning 57.7% of the vote in a parliamentary by-election. It was a humiliating defeat for Labor's Peter Tatchell, 31, who won only 26.1%. The result, declared Social Democratic Leader Roy Jenkins, was "a sensational, a magnificent victory that exceeded my highest expectations. It is an enormous setback for Labor...
...political commentators have dubbed "the superpower election." Vogel's Social Democrats complained loudly last month when President Ronald Reagan said in a press conference that West German rejection of the new Pershing II missiles scheduled to be deployed by the end of this year would be a "terrible setback to the cause of peace and disarmament." Although Reagan did not express a preference for either candidate, the Social Democrats saw the statement as U.S. support for Kohl...
...setback drops the Crimson's record to 12-13 overall, and 4-9 in the Ivy League, leaving them only a game ahead of cellar-dwelling Dartmouth Brown nudged slightly ahead in the standings, as it boosted its league mark...
...year political elections traditionally give French voters a chance to show discontent with the government without risking national political upheaval. Giscard has hinted that the government should respond to a serious setback in the municipal elections by dissolving parliament and seeking a new national mandate. But the former President did not do that when his coalition was trounced in the 1977 municipal elections, and there is every reason to believe that Mitterrand will respect that precedent no matter how poorly the left does next month...