Word: defeat
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...Golden Gophers still had a few tricks up their sleeves as the hosts scored four goals in the third period to defeat the Crimson 5-2 in the Mariucci Arena. Only one of these came on a power play...
...Schwarzenegger's plan spares the state's four-year universities, K-12 schools and two-year community colleges get whacked, losing $2.4 billion in funding. And it remains unclear how prison costs can be contained. Schwarzenegger wants to privatize the prisons, but to do so, he will have to defeat the powerful prison-guard union. After years of stiffer sentences supported by politicians and voters, California's prison population has exploded to 170,000 inmates. Overcrowding is so severe that federal judges have ordered the state to reduce the prison population by 40,000 over the next two years. Health...
...spread of radicalization. "Many community leaders have come to recognize that [tackling radicalization] is a matter of survival," says Ebrahim Moosa, a professor of religion at Duke and a co-author of the report. "They know that radicalization threatens the community at large and are working hard to defeat it." The researchers recommend that the government reinforce these efforts...
Research shows that in the long term, the pleasure of victory is a better incentive than the agony of defeat. "Punishment is a poor motivator," says Hester. "It sets people up for failure. If all you do is punish yourself for failure, you won't stay motivated to change for very long...