Word: defeat
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...Harvard women’s soccer team opened its season with two losses last weekend in Southern California. Against the Long Beach State 49ers (3-1-1), the Crimson (0-2-0) could not find offensive rhythm and suffered a 3-0 defeat. “We didn’t play particularly well,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. “It was first game jitters.” In the next contest against the Loyola Marymount Lions (2-2-1), the Crimson improved immensely but still fell 1-0. Harvard possessed the ball much better...
...landmark 1994 deal to freeze its nuclear program. Yet Clinton had sent Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to Pyongyang in October 2000 and considered making his own visit. Vice President Dick Cheney summed up the Bush Administration's more muscular approach: "We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat...
...Palin made social issues the cornerstone of her governorship. When a parental consent law was struck down by Alaska's highest court in 2007, Palin called the decision "outrageous" but refused calls from conservatives to remedy the defeat by introducing antiabortion legislation in a session that was supposed to be about drilling rights...
...McCain campaign released isn't a hit because people see through this desperate strategy. Since the Democratic primaries, Obama has clung to a belief in meaningful arguments and substance. He has refused, so far, to pander to the kind of agitprop that the Bush campaign ran in 2004 to defeat Kerry. McCain, though, seems determined to deploy the slime. Is America really going to let itself be swift-boated again? Leslie Castello, Jacksonville...
...same level of contempt they once reserved for tobacco-company executives, corrupt lawmakers and George W. Bush. They have convinced themselves that Obama is not honorable, that he does not love his country as much as himself. That makes it easier to justify doing whatever is necessary to defeat him - especially if it's done in the pursuit of honor...