Word: setbacks
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...Saturday, Harvard delivered Navy a major psychological setback in the first event, the medley relay. This relay has been a Navy strongpoint in recent years, but backstroker Dan Kobick tied his pool record (54.5) on the first leg to give Harvard a lead it never relinquished...
...decision represents a major setback for Committeeman James F. Fitzgerald, who has vigorously fought for Frisoli's immediate appointment as permanent Superintendent...
...does seem fairly clear that the turning point came with the Carswell defeat. As a New York Times political reporter visiting Harvard last spring suggested to a group of students he talked with, it seems quite plausible that Nixon suffered some kind of severe psychic setback after that Senate vote. The reporter felt as well that the then ongoing Cambodian crisis-both the invasion and the super patriotic rhetoric surrounding it-was a product of the same upset mind. He added, of course, that the President was sufficiently isolated from reporters and public that it might take more than...
...industrialist and financier have made Chicago's Henry Crown prouder than the work he did a decade ago at General Dynamics Corp. As executive committee chairman he helped manage the company's recovery from a $435 million loss on its Convair jetliners; it was the largest financial setback on a single product line ever sustained by a U.S. corporation. Crown felt deeply wounded when the company's directors in 1965 and 1966 called in General Dynamics' preference stock, forcing him and his family to sell a $100 million holding. It seemed like an obvious attempt...
...Included in the outfit are tobacco, specially made papers and filters, the rolling machine and even 20-butt packets (which, curiously, do not bear the compulsory warning that smoking may be injurious to health). The cost? About 20? per pack-a boon to the heavy smoker and an apparent setback for American Cancer Society and other anti-smoking campaigners...