Word: setbacks
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...Crimson never recovered from this early setback, managing to collect only 11 points on three occasions...
...chemicals of discontent which are present throughout the whole Arab world exploded in a foreboding chain reaction last week in Jordan. The trigger was Britain's attempt to bring Jordan into the anti-Communist Baghdad pact too fast; the effect was a setback for the West...
...morning tea breaks" and volunteered to work in the rain. The Communists circularized dockworkers: "Most immigrant Bails are fascists opposed to unionism." Crime increased with the rising population, and Australians were disturbed by the addition of a new weapon to the Australian criminal's arsenal: the knife. Biggest setback has been the reluctance of Australian girls to marry immigrants...
GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE suffered its first major setback in Ohio, where voters turned down a referendum to allow workers to collect unemployment pay simultaneously from the state and private industry. If Ohio does not approve dual unemployment compensation by the June 1, 1957 deadline, Ford and G.M. employees in Ohio will take advantage of a substitute contract provision under which they would alternate between state payments and company benefits calculated to help make up the difference...
...lent India nine Soviet economists, and promises to build a 1,000,000-ton steel plant in central India at a low rate of interest and with the help of Russian engineers. But if every Russian crop-dusting loan to some Middle East nation is to be considered a setback for the West, then presumably the Russians would have been crushed years ago by the weight of U.S. aid. In the past three years, the U.S. has spent in India alone...