Word: defeating
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...Rudenstine wins a political victory as he leads a coalition to defeat the Riggs Amendment to the Higher Education Act, which would have banned federal funding to colleges using affirmative action in admissions decisions...
...Crimson did defeat several ranked opponents, including No. 18 Boston University, No. 20 Penn, No. 17 Boston College and No. 10 Providence...
After Bush's defeat in 1992, Kristol stayed in Washington, where he founded a conservative think tank and served as a key Republican strategist. Kristol engineered the successful Republican assault on the Clinton health care reform plan...
Harvard's three losses were a 17-11 first-round loss to North Carolina State, a 15-10 loss to Colorado in the third round and a 15-5 defeat at the hands of top-seeded Stanford in the fourth...
...songs that eluded him till the end. Studio outtakes and bootlegs show him chiding the arranger, bugging the conductor, riding the band and beating up on himself with a good-humored swagger that doesn't hide the disappointment and frustration that are chewing him up. You can hear the defeat in his voice, as if he had lost a chance at lasting love...