Word: setbacks
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...focus of the series, has been laid off his factory job and feels obsolete in his late twenties. He lives with Louise, his fiancée, and they plan for the wedding in spite of this setback. Or rather, Louise plans while Rob becomes increasingly dispirited about The Whole Thing. Over the course of the six issues Rob goes to greater and greater lengths to unconsciously sabotage all his relationships...
Baker did indeed rally back from his setback on Saturday, claiming second place in the 5,000-meter race yesterday...
...Afghanistan's Taliban government appeared to suffer a major setback when fighting broke out over the key town of Bamiyan. Opposition groups claimed to have captured the town. The latest fighting comes as the Taliban face tough new U.N. sanctions over their refusal to hand over the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden to face charges related to the blowing up of U.S. embassies in 1998. U.N. officials have warned of a major disaster if emergency aid is not immediately made available to an estimated 600,000 Afghans who have been displaced by the war and are enduring in makeshift border...
...major setback to Napster, last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sided with the industry on just that point. It ruled that Napster must stop helping its users exchange unauthorized, copyrighted material. The court did throw Napster a bone: it put the burden for identifying particular copyrighted material on the music labels and other aggrieved copyright owners...
...FRUITY SETBACK Fruits and vegetables are packed with anticancer agents, but don't count on them to prevent breast tumors. A report that pooled the results of eight studies involving 350,000 women found no evidence that eating even the most promising veggies--such as broccoli, kale and carrots--lowers a woman's risk of breast cancer...