Word: defeat
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...What the demonstrations did make clear was the extent to which President Clinton's own hands are tied domestically. Following on the heels of the nuclear test ban treaty debacle, the WTO failure may usher in an open season on the lame duck President's foreign policy. Clinton's defeat in Seattle will certainly embolden those congressional forces that had vowed to turn down the President's deal with China over WTO membership, putting at least a question mark over its passage in an election year. But what's bad for Bill Clinton may not be altogether...
Harvard has not defeated RPI in a regular season affair since 1996-97, but it did defeat the Engineers 2-1 in Game One of the ECAC Quarterfinals last year...
...Burnout basically means surrendering in the face of defeat, giving up on even continuing to try," Ducey writes...
...while the women (1-1 overall, 0-0 Ivy) were able to overcome their lackluster showing in the sabre to defeat Brandeis 19-8, the men (0-2, 0-0) could not recover and fell to the Judges, 16-11 last night at the Malkin Athletic Center...
HELMS' PROBLEM Moseley-Braun helped defeat Helms' plan to renew a design patent on an insignia that featured the Confederate flag...