Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advertising. Indeed, Dyson's media consultant, Phil Friedman, who pocketed a handsome $450,000 for the job, confidently predicted victory in the days leading up to the voting. But to Randy Daniels, Green's press secretary, the upset "shows the limitations" of political commercials. "We were able to defeat Dyson and Dyson's money because we outworked him and outresearched...
Norfolk Southern, the nation's fourth largest railway, conceded defeat last week in its 18-month-long bid to buy Conrail, the now profitable Government- owned rail system. Early last year Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole had selected Norfolk Southern as the best qualified of 15 bidders to buy Conrail's freight-hauling business for $1.2 billion. Last February the Senate approved, and the much bruited merger seemed to be on track...
...later rejected. Winston quit after CBS executives told her that the show's budget would be drastically cut and that it would not be produced by the news division. "I felt that was a dramatically wrong move," she said. "Moving it out of the news division smelled of defeat...
...official: "We expect that the Kadar era as an idea will continue even after he has left power." So does Kadar, who puts his trust in the popularity of what he has accomplished, a remarkable tribute to himself and his countrymen and the freedoms built out of that total defeat 30 years...
...playwright son "disappeared" in 1976 because three years earlier he had sublet his apartment to a stranger who turned out to be an alleged guerrilla, wrote in her diary: "For a mother, hope never dies...No matter how tired and disappointed, the will to fight increases with every defeat...