Word: defeated
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Spokesmen for the American Federation of Teachers--the organization directing the lobbying effort against the bill--said yesterday that they are still working to defeat the bill on the floor of the House...
...even if Kennedy strongly vows his unavailability. Says she: "This is a draft movement, and the nature of a draft is to persuade a reluctant candidate he must run." Polls in the Granite State show that if the Senator does enter, even as a write-in, he would easily defeat the President...
Trudeau's hopes collapsed in Ontario, Canada's richest, most populous province, where the Tories won 57 seats to the Liberals' 32. Sighed Alastair Gillespie, Trudeau's Energy Minister, as he contemplated the defeat of 13 of Trudeau's 31 Cabinet ministers: "The tide went...
Levesque had done whatever he could to ensure the defeat of his old enemy Trudeau. To weaken the Liberals' traditional domination of federal elections in Quebec, the Parti Québecois endorsed the Social Credit Party and its bombastic leader, Fabien Roy. The strategy backfired. In the Liberal sweep of the province, five of the nine Social Credit M.P.s were defeated...
...With the defeat of the Rangers, four games to one, the Montreal Canadiens captured their fourth straight Stanley Cup, their 15th in the past quarter-century, their 22nd championship in a skein that began...