Word: setbacks
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...family. His goal: to gain enough backing to allow him to tell the enfeebled dictator it was time to step aside. Only the family members and some of Franco's closest and oldest aides refused to concur. When told about the doctors' announcement of Franco's setback, Arias apparently rushed to El Pardo Palace to get a signature on a document transferring authority to Juan Carlos. The doctors, however, stopped the Premier from entering the sickroom, warning that "it would kill Franco to take a pen in his hand...
Kessen says that the report got too bogged down on the specifies of change. He said the attention spent on the summer plan was a setback-a sidelight ended up dominating the report's wealth of academic recommendations...
Otherwise, all hands are fine, and as a result, Columbia's rehabilitation will have to suffer yet another setback. And cool it on those Columbia jokes. After all, it's bad enough we're here and not at Fenway Park to begin with...
...planned Mission Park Housing Project received a setback this week as the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency's executive director recommended to that agency's board that the project not receive a requested $40-million loan at this time...
...trouble-plagued, 798-mile pipeline project, the debilitating race against wind and weather was the most serious setback yet. The barges contained thousands of tons of supplies-part of a $540 million cargo of fuel, cranes, transformers, sections of tall prefabricated buildings-too heavy or expensive to be moved by truck. There is a slim chance that the fleet could still get through-about 20% according to weather experts. Barring that, the delay may well mean the first trickle of oil will not begin flowing south to the deep-water port of Valdez on schedule in the summer...