Word: setbacks
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...press releases than they have yet been with their guns, the commanders of Major General Yakubu Gowon's federal army of Nigeria shrugged off the recent loss of their country's Midwestern Region. The unexpected victory of the rebel Biafrans from the east was only "a temporary setback." When the Biafrans penetrated the Western Region as far as the crossroads town of Ore last week, Gowon's spokesmen called it "the last desperate move of the rebels before their total collapse...
...collapses when it rains. Three times since 1950, the output of new housing has dived after the Federal Reserve tightened up on money to thwart inflation. No other major U.S. industry is quite so vulnerable to swings in monetary policy. Last year the money squeeze gave housing its worst setback since World...
...cannot hide from ourselves the fact that we have met with a grave setback in the last few days." With that uncharacteristic bit of understatement, Gamal Abdel Nasser began his accounting to Egypt and the Arab world in a radio and television address the day after his cease-fire with Israel. Nasser went on to assert that, of course, Israel alone could never have defeated the united legions of Arabia: the U.S. and Britain must have helped. And then his despairing and disbelieving followers heard Nasser announce his resignation from "every official post and every political role...
...Crimson was banking on a Princeton win over Yale and then a Harvard win over Princeton this Saturday to produce a three-way tie, but Yale coach Al Wilson and his crew had other ideas. The Tigers, whose loss to Yale was their only Ivy setback, will now meet the Crimson to decide second place...
...setback at Cornell was the twelfth consecutive Ivy League loss for Harvard, but the improved showing of the entire squad gave hope that the end of that losing streak may be in sight...