Word: defeating
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Moreover, Harvard was able to be very competitive with a Cornell team which was riding a stretch of four straight games during which it held its opposition scoreless. During that stretch, the Big Red even managed to defeat No. 17 Brown...
...Senate has a unique opportunity this week to shred American credibility in international affairs. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), a measure created through U.S. diplomacy and signed by 154 nations, is coming up for a vote in the Senate today or tomorrow and appears to be headed for defeat. The treaty should be ratified immediately or, if the necessary votes are unavailable, delayed until a more extensive public debate can take place...
This time, President Clinton may not even snatch defeat from the jaws of humiliation. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott indicated late Monday that Senate Republicans would postpone Tuesday's vote on the nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but only if the President lets the matter lie for the duration of his term. And National Security Council Adviser Sandy Berger told the New York Times the administration could live with the condition that it scrap the treaty, which had been designated among the foreign policy priorities of Clinton's second term. In the end, the White House found Capitol Hill simply unwilling...
...have to take on Hitler, Bush appeased him, explaining that "I need all the votes" he could get. While McCain says he is running "because I owe America more than she has ever owed me," Bush sometimes seems motivated by a need to redeem his father's defeat. He keeps bringing it up in a way that suggests it has been his life's deepest wound. Last Wednesday he said that Buchanan's 1992 candidacy had had a role in derailing his father, and suggested that Ross Perot carried a "vendetta" against his family. In McCain's story his father...
...someone in short shorts. You've got to remember where your grandparents come from.'" So far, the disputes have been trivial. But trouble could erupt if the girls decide, say, to marry outside their ethnic group. Rajaram is already steeling himself for the battle--and his likely defeat. "I'll try to talk them out of it first. And if they still go ahead, then I'll say, 'It's O.K. I don't approve, but have a good life...