Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already lined up 89 special-interest organizations to support its antitreaty drive. Included are the American Federation of Small Business, the Reserve Officers Association, Americans for a Safe Israel and the National Alliance of Senior Citizens. Eventually, the coalition expects to spend $10 million in its efforts to defeat SALT...
...Salem Women's Crisis Center, which had urged Greta to bring the charges in the first place: "I feel terrifically saddened by the verdict and concerned about the future of women who have to live with marital violence daily." But other feminists were more optimistic. Despite the defeat, said Noreen Connell of the National Organization for Women, "the very fact that there has been such a case" means other married women will now be less hesitant to seek legal remedy if they are sexually assaulted by their husbands...
Like a biblical prophet, Christopher Lasch appears at the gates of our culture with dire pronouncements: "Storm warnings, portents, hints of catastrophe haunt our times ... Defeat in Viet Nam, economic stagnation, and the impending exhaustion of natural resources have produced a mood of pessimism in higher circles, which spreads through the rest of society as people lose faith in their leaders ... As social life becomes more and more warlike and barbaric, personal relations, which ostensibly provide relief from these conditions, take on the character of combat ... a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class...
...came out really flat. It's too long a trip to be away two weeks," coach Frank McLaughlin said following his squad's seventh straight loss and tenth defeat in 13 games this season...
...other words, the good news for Republicans this year may be that George W. Bush will narrowly defeat Al Gore for the presidency. The bad news may be that, after the brief Dubya interregnum, a second Clinton regime lies just down the road...