Word: setbacks
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...spreading practice of using art to get dubious tax deductions received a significant legal setback last week...
...stated that the condition of U.S. athletics was a matter of international prestige, it is obvious MacArthur's settlement solves only a small part of the problem. Mr. Kennedy intervened in the AAU-NCAA dispute because he felt a poor U.S. showing in the Olympics would constitute a severe setback to national prestige. The Olympic Games, formerly an event for friendly athletic competition, have thus been recognized by the U.S. government as an appropriate test of the advantages of capitalism and communism. This has long been the opinion of numerous misled sports writers and individuals, much to the detriment...
...early 1958, through the inexorable workings of seniority, Mills became committee chairman?and soon suffered a stunning setback: the House rejected the very first major bill that he brought to the floor as chairman (it was a measure to extend the unemployment benefits of jobless people who had used up their quotas ). That blow left a mark upon Mills. He has never lost another major bill on the floor, but in guarding against defeat he has sometimes delayed too long or wavered too much while trying to make a committee bill fail-proof. During the 1959 session, his excessive wariness...
...Steel Crisis: "Now, supposing we had tried and made a speech about it and then failed. I would have thought that would have been an awful setback to the office of the presidency. Now, I just think, looking back on it, that I would not change it at all. There is no sense in raising hell and then not being successful. There is no sense in putting the office of the presidency on the line on an issue and then being defeated...
...achieved a complete victory in Cuba, the Soviet Union had suffered a stunning setback. Just as significant as Nikita Khrushchev's backdown in the face of firmness was the fact that the Cuba crisis had heartened the Western alliance while helping to splinter the Communist world...