Word: setbacks
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...referendum vote was a disaster for the neo-Fascists and a major setback for the church-backed Christian Democrats. The election results will likely weaken the already fragile two-month-old coalition government (Italy's 36th since the war) headed by Christian Democratic Premier Mariano Rumor. Though Rumor himself kept clear of the referendum, he will now be susceptible to pressures from his Socialist coalition partners. They might try to exploit their victory on divorce-the 1970 law was proposed by Socialist Deputy Loris Fortuna-by demanding more low-cost housing, better schools and hospitals, and increased investment...
Shortly after the Social Democratic Party suffered a serious setback in a Hamburg state by-election last March, Helmut Schmidt, 55, went on television and bluntly accused his boss, Willy Brandt, of weak leadership and laxity. That kind of pugnacity long ago earned West Germany's new Chancellor-nominate the nickname "Schmidt-Schnauze" (Schmidt the Lip). Friends and enemies alike describe him as an "American-style" politician, in reference to his rough-and-tumble skill as an infighter. Certainly no one has ever accused him of indecision or timidity- or of hiding his ambition to take over Brandt...
...dollar's current setback reflects a complex of U.S. economic ills. American inflation is now running at a compound annual rate of 14%, higher than in eight countries of Western Europe, and in the first quarter of 1974, the U.S. output of goods and services fell at an annual rate of 5.8%. That combination of inflation and downturn has upset money traders, who also note that the U.S. trade surplus gave way to a $171 million deficit in March...
...Giscard maintains his momentum and outruns Chaban, the Gaullist Party will suffer a serious and perhaps fatal setback. "Then we will bury General de Gaulle for a second time," says Gaullist Minister of the Interior Jacques Chirac. In the runoff, as the sole candidate of the center and right, Giscard would be favored to top Mitterrand. The current campaign, however, has had several surprises. Thus, no one rules out the long-odds possibility that Mitterrand may just get a majority on May 5, winning the presidency and making the Giscard-Chaban duel on the right an empty exercise...
...Harvard mile relay squad of Sam Butler, Nick Leone, Randy Buckley, and Joel Peters suffered a setback when Buckley pulled up during his quarter leg. Butler had gone out fast in the opening 440, but it is impossible to predict how well the Crimson would have placed, considering the over-abundance of sub-3:15 mile relay squads...