Word: blows
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...That second game against Columbia was a real hearbreaker," Giardi said. "You work that hard to come back, and then you blow it. We really should have won that game...
Most South Africans were hoping against history that the elections designed to transform their country would go smoothly. But just as the centuries of white domination come to an end, the prospect of a civil war that might blow up the process has shaken the country's 40 million citizens. De Klerk, opting to fight for peace if necessary, ordered in the troops. The choice -- between rebellion and acquiescence -- is now up to Inkatha...
...unfortunate national twitch: we can't turn away from the wish for freedom from authoritarianism because that wish is our country's fundament. The problem is that the hammer of MFN, rather than beating China into submission on human rights (not likely in any case), could deal a serious blow to its movement toward democracy. That fact is hard to face in light of such events as the detention last week of dissident Wei Jingsheng, but it is nevertheless a fact. Like Vietnam, China is setting loose an economic system in which individual effort will yield individual rewards...
...first shot not only killed Luis Donaldo Colosio, the ruling party's handpicked successor to Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, but it also crippled the confidence of a country striving to enter the select company of First World nations. The murder was the latest blow in a year that has . brought violent rebellion, economic uncertainty and political disruption to a land whose citizens believed they had achieved peace and stability. Mexicans grieved not just for Colosio but for themselves and a future they now viewed with trepidation. In the weeks ahead, they will discover whether their institutions and maturity...
...were aghast, government officials were embarrassed, and breast-cancer victims were fretting about whether they had received the best treatment. Coming in the wake of a whole series of highly publicized allegations of fraud in the scientific world -- some unjustified -- the clear-cut case against Poisson dealt a new blow to the reputation of the research community. Said a federal scientist involved with the investigation: "This was not sloppiness. It was real cunning fabrication...