Word: setbacks
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...Harvard suffered a critical and perhaps ultimately fatal, setback in the second event, the 100-yd. freestyle. In the afternoon's trials, Mack had gone 46.06 to qualify first, while Cooper qualified second. Unfortunately, the starter fired a quick starting gun while people were still moving on the blocks in the finals, and Mack and Cooper never really recovered. Cooper took fourth and Mack sixth, while Princeton's O'Hara and Fine finished second and fifth, respectively. LaSalle's Tom McKeon won the race...
...fact that Yale defeated the Harvard hockey team for the first time in their last nine meetings Saturday was not nearly as critical as the how and when of the icemen's setback...
...only serious setback for Harvard on the day came when the weight men dropped an impromptu relay race, by just a bicep, to Princeton...
Stymied for nearly two years in their attempts to prospect for the huge quantities of oil and gas believed to lie under the Atlantic, U.S. oil companies suffered yet another setback last week. A federal court in Boston stopped the sale of oil leases on Georges Bank, a rich fishing ground 100 miles southeast of Nantucket. It thus put off for months, and possibly years, the day when drilling could begin...
...also allowed an average of 6.9 million West Germans to visit relatives in the East each year, and 45,000 East Germans to emigrate to the West since 1972. "Our ties to the other part of Germany are not with out burdens, and the present new strains are a setback," Schmidt said last week, "but there is no alternative to détente...