Word: setbacks
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...coalition, which came to power on Oct. 1 when the Free Democrats switched allegiance from the coalition led by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. A hometown hero in Hamburg, Schmidt had campaigned hard, accusing the Free Democrats of "betrayal." Kohl was chastened but not discouraged by his party's setback because Hamburg has traditionally been a Social Democratic stronghold. Though it would be premature to judge as the start of a nationwide trend, the opposition's return to power in Hamburg, it is an omen Kohl would do well to heed...
...only because both sides fear the economic carnage that would ensue. Tumlir even found a "silver lining" in the GATT meeting two weeks ago, which pitted U.S. negotiators against the European Community over the issue of agriculture subsidies. Although the meeting generally was regarded as at least a setback to world trade, Tumlir saw in the desperate last-minute efforts to prevent an impasse proof that the main participants recognized the grave consequences of total failure. Concluded Tumlir: "If everybody were as pessimistic as the politicians, it would be inconceivable that the Western economies would have held so steadily...
...highflying participants came crashing down with a thud. Warner Communications, owner of Atari, the king of video games, unexpectedly forecast a slump in fourth-quarter earnings. The news reverberated through Wall Street. Analysts began recalculating profit estimates of the best-known games manufacturers, trying to divine whether the Atari setback had more cosmic implications. By week's end no one was quite ready to declare that the stock market was flashing a bleak "Game Over" for the popular amusements. But it seemed clear that video-game makers would no longer be able to rack up record profits with...
...Beat Goes On Clark has a setback, but the artificial heart keeps pumping...
...just as it had from the time of the landmark operation in Salt Lake City on Dec. 1. The plastic pump clicked steadily at an unvarying 90 beats a minute as Clark made remarkable initial progress. And it pulsed without pause as Clark suffered, and survived, the first major setback in his recovery. The heart's unflagging performance led Dr. Chase Peterson, a vice president of the University of Utah Medical Center to assert: "Barney Clark is not an artificial-heart patient now. He's simply a seriously ill post-operative patient who has had complications and could...