Word: defeatable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the latest attack appeared to be neither a serious defeat for the Iranians nor the first round in Tehran's long-threatened offensive, which is expected to begin sometime before March. Rather it seemed to have been an Iranian effort to test Iraqi defenses along the southern front. Nonetheless, the recent Iraqi aerial bombardment may be causing morale problems within Iran. The Khomeini government cannot afford a serious setback on the battlefield, but neither can it afford a widespread civilian reaction against the stalemated...
Fulbright, 81, a Democratic senator from Arkansas from 1945 until his defeat in 1974, commented Tuesday at the National Press Club after speeking about the 40th anniversary of the start of the Fulbright Exchange Program...
...says when he talks to students from low-income backgrounds he is forced to recall his own "experience at a school that was expensive, worrying that my parents had to scrape together the money and not wanting to disappoint them--wanting to do well, finding it hard to admit defeat...
Despite Harvard's disappointing 85-61 consolation game defeat by Boston University in the Boston Four Tournament Saturday night in Northeastern's Cabot Gym, it was a record-breaking evening for Harvard junior guard Barb Keffer...
...demonstrations recalled the heady days of May 1968, when hundreds of thousands of radicalized French students took to the streets to protest a wide range of university and government policies. But the new generation of student demonstrators had more modest goals and more orderly manners. Their aim: to defeat an educational-reform bill that would tighten admissions standards and raise tuition fees...