Word: setbacks
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...when Harvard and the union were notified on Monday that the Washington board felt the "substantial issues" involved in the case merited review, the union was justifiably elated, and Harvard had suffered its first setback since the union began organizing employees in the Med area two years...
...what must be considered a setback for Edison, McNaught ruled yesterday that the power company may not present any new evidence that was unavailable to the BRA when it gave approval to the plant...
...politics with a touch of cussedness. President Ford tried his best to be just as conservative and just as cussed, but Texans were obviously not convinced. In giving Reagan their votes, they also gave him a dramatic reprieve in his uphill fight for the nomination and delivered a jolting setback to Ford. Until Texas, he had been far ahead of Reagan in firm delegates, 268 to 137 (needed to nominate...
...understanding of music and its performance, and her ability in communicating her ideas. Her devotion to her students is such that she spends an average of 30 hours a week personally coaching them, besides helping and advising students outside the course. Her resignation at this point is a grave setback to musical performance instruction at Harvard and Radcliffe, which we hope will be remedied in the near future...
Teddy has done neither. Every sign of possible recovery has been quickly followed by a setback. To make matters worse, the chances of a successful bone-marrow transplant, a technique employed sometimes in aplastic anemia and occasionally in leukemia cases, faded when the likeliest donor, Teddy's sister Elizabeth, 9, turned out to have a distinctly different marrow type...