Word: setbacks
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Kasperak rallied through most of the week. But then he suffered a serious setback. Because of his poor liver function, an excess of bilirubin (a by-product of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in blood) began to build up in his system, and doctors scheduled another massive transfusion to remove impurities from his blood. Through it all, the one organ that consistently worked best was his acquired heart...
...during the first half of the year, and hindsight bestowed the label of mini-recession. For the first time since 1961, the economy missed its clockwork quarterly advance. During the first three months of the year, the nation's real output of goods and services declined. Statistically, the setback was minuscule (0.06%) and much too brief to qualify as a meaningful interruption in the long expansion. Having picked up momentum again, the economy passed a notable milestone in November: the 81st month of unbroken prosperity, bettering the war-fueled record set between 1939 and 1945. Over the past...
...power last April in a lightning coup. Even if the King or one of his family should be enticed back to Greece by the junta, which seems to feel that it needs the royal family for constitutional window dressing, Greece's 134-year-old monarchy had suffered a setback that deprived it of what little power and prestige...
Then Brown shocked the hockey world by handing Cornell its second loss in two years, 6-3. McGinnis was called on to make 38 saves while Cornell junior Ken Dryden stopped only 23 in his first American setback...
...result of Labor's mismanagement. In the only chance that Britons had to express their judgment with ballots, the by-election voters of West Derbyshire more than doubled the Tory majority and dropped the Laborite candidate into third place behind the Liberal Party man. "It was a setback," Wilson said of devaluation on a TV panel. "The chancellor said that it was a defeat. The last two weeks for him and for me, and for a number of others, have been hell...