Word: setbacks
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...lack of favorable media attention only contributes to what is probably the largest setback for a woman to become president: the very fact that no woman has ever been president. There is no political role model for women to emulate. In 2000, although Elizabeth Dole’s presidential run was short-lived, it inspired a new generation of female leaders. The outpouring of female support for Dole underscores the desire for images of women in executive positions. For instance, Iceland’s Vigdic Finnbogadottir said that after she had been president for eight years, she realized that...
...that involves devising bioterror scenarios and once worked for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. That facility works with the Ames strain of anthrax, which was used in the attacks. She also says the suspect recently "had a career setback that challenged his high ambitions and left him angry and depressed...
...carrying identification, apparently a crime in Nevada. I explained the situation to the police, and the men were released. The following morning, I awoke to the news that a grandfather of one of the men had died, so the couples needed to return to Reno. Just another setback in accomplishing our goal; I could deal with it. Slightly more trying, however, was the second arrest of my two favorite signature-gatherers...
Instead of letting that setback drag down his play, Winter played brilliantly the next night versus Penn, scoring 12 points, hitting a clutch free throw down the stretch and teaming up with freshman Graham Beatty to contain the Quakers’ stars, Ugonna Onyekwe and Koko Archibong, in a 78-75 overtime...
Only a 5-4 road setback to Trinity on Feb. 2 and a heartbreaking one-point loss to the Bantams in the Howe Cup final prevented Harvard from successfully defending its 2000-01 national championship with a perfect record...