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Ironically it was Fitzpatrick’s drive to return to the field and his determination to lead the team to victory that ultimately set up this second setback in four weeks...
According to Slater, Harvard’s standing among blacks suffered a further setback after former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, a prominent scholar in what was then called the Department of Afro-American Studies, left Harvard for Princeton in 2002 following a spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers...
Previewing the holiday season, analysts give Nokia the nod; Motorola's profitability lags Nokia's, and Motorola has been slow to deliver a camera phone in the U.S., a setback since sales of this item could double, to 16% of the industry total, in 2004. Writes Paul Sagawa of Bernstein Research: "The rest of the competition will eat away at its market share...
...destructive technologies, the United States cannot remain idle while dangers gather.” Saddam Hussein was unquestionably seeking nuclear capabilities. Even as long ago as June 1981, Israeli aircraft bombed a (French-built) plutonium plant at Tuwaitah—an action that proved to be only a temporary setback to Saddam’s nuclear program...
Every day George Bush is in office is another setback to the cause of environmental protection. President Bush broke a campaign promise to reduce the harmful carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming. He’s taking environmental cops off the beat and letting power plants hundreds of miles away pollute New England’s air. He’s further isolated us from our neighbors by rejecting the Kyoto Treaty outright, instead of working with other nations to try to improve it. He thinks you should pay to clean up after corporate polluters. He?...