Word: setbacks
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...enormity of the defeat was shattering enough. At a time when a confluence of pressures was already upon him, Richard Nixon experienced the most serious reversal of his young presidency with the Senate's surprise rejection of his second nomination to the Supreme Court. The setback was a sharp blow to the President's national prestige, especially since he had only a week before raised the Senate vote to the level of a test of wills by denouncing senatorial opposition to his presidential prerogatives. The Senate's action at least called into question the viability of his Administration...
According to the House rules, a motion to reconsider the measure will be in order tomorrow, but yesterday's 47-vote margin makes the possibility of a setback unlikely...
...little like trying to combine Marx with the Marx Brothers. Each tends to cancel out the other. In The White House Murder Case, a minor crisis of statecraft is in progress. "Operation Total Win," a maneuver launched during an undeclared war against Brazil, has suffered a slight setback. A U.S. nerve gas known as Peace Gas has floated astray and killed 750 American boys...
...Goldsmith (1770) I INTIL recently only dyspeptic phi-V-' losophers, conservationists and a handful of academics dared to question the proposition that economic expansion necessarily fosters human progress. Each jump of the national output of goods and services has been treated as a triumph, each fall as a setback. Like other affluent Western countries, the U.S. has avidly pursued prosperity, convinced that a rising standard of living would ameliorate if not dispel most economic and social ills...
Harvard received a setback early in one match when captain Paul Catinella dropped a questionable 2-1 decision at 134 to AI Ullyeda, runner-up in last year's Easterns...