Word: setbacks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That brashness didn’t always pay off for Harvard. Three different players—Lobach, Fritz and Ara—received ejections when all hell broke loose in the Crimson’s 3-1 setback against Loyola Marymount. Harvard’s extraordinary depth made a contest out of the team’s next match against Boston College, but there was only so much the Crimson could do with its two leading scorers and best defender on the sidelines. Harvard lost, 3-2, and the Crimson didn’t recover in the national rankings...
After this setback, Gong stayed on in Hong Kong and, as he looked for other means to obtain a law degree, he worked as a freelance journalist with the Hong Kong Tiger Standard...
With the second varsity boat’s setback, No. 6 Radcliffe fell to an 11th place finish in the team competition. The varsity eight finished 12th, the second varsity eight came in 10th and the varsity four placed sixth...
...setback for victims came on Friday when the Boston Archdiocese rejected a $20 million to $30 million settlement it had reached in March with victims of defrocked priest John Geoghan. Courts had not yet approved the deal, which would have awarded 86 victims up to $300,000 each. This marked the first time the archdiocese's finance council had gone against the professed wishes of Bernard Cardinal Law. Even if the plaintiffs go on to sue and win in civil court, Massachusetts law restricts the maximum payout from a nonprofit organization to $20,000 per victim. If the archdiocese...
...Washington lost no time in emphasizing that the Likud vote has not changed the fact that Palestinian statehood remains the endpoint of the diplomatic process. And despite his setback, Sharon appears to have won a measure of sympathy from Bush for his insistence that negotiations over Palestinian statehood have to be preceded by moves to end violence and by reforms inside Arafat's administration. His diplomatic standing will have been further enhanced by his acceptance of Washington's quiet pressure to show restraint on invading Gaza in response to last week's bombing at Rishon Letzion...