Word: setbacks
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Hieu added that the war resulted in the relocation of many Vietnamese universities, a serious setback for research and education...
...vote yesterday was a major setback for those fighting addition of the ERA to the U.S. Constitution, Garn said...
...born-again presidency for Jimmy Carter. After months of discouraging setbacks, a steady decline in the polls and increasingly open disdain from members of his own party, the President was exuberantly on the move, roving from New Jersey to the Carolinas to the Middle West. Everywhere he went, crowds turned out and cheered him for his historic success at the Middle East summit talks at Camp David, and those ringing cheers were backed up by new polls that showed him making dramatic gains in the past week. According to a CBS survey, popular approval of his Administration climbed from...
Progress towards peace suffered, a setback over the weekend, however, when Jordan's King Hussein said in a news conference that the Camp David proposals for Jordanian participation in peace negotiations are unacceptable "in the present form...
Harvard suffered a major setback in January when the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) handed down a ruling prohibiting installation of the facility's diesel generators because of possible air pollution problems. The University has, however, enjoyed a string of recent victories in the courts. In addition, construction is now 50-to-60 per cent complete--and that disturbs many power plant opponents who believe that the further Harvard progresses with construction, the harder it will be to ultimately stop the plant from going into operation...