Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muammar Gaddafi have been fighting on the ground in Chad for a long time, despite the Libyan leader's frequent denials. More important, the prisoners were tangible evidence of the biggest victory of the Chad army since the latest round of fighting began in 1982. Gaddafi responded to the defeat at Fada by dispatching four MiG-23s to bomb the towns of Arada and Oum Chalouba. The raid did little damage, yet it was important because it carried the war south of the 16th parallel. In 1983 France set that line as the point beyond which Libyan military interference would...
...idea was something along the lines of one for all and all for one. Top- notch U.S. high-tech companies would combine their research efforts and defeat their fierce competitors from Japan. But now the alliance, known as the $ Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC), is suffering some serious defections. Last week MCC announced that Unisys, Lockheed and Allied- Signal had given notice that they will be departing from the consortium at the end of the year. All three companies say in essence that being part of the group no longer fits their needs...
...Worst defeat administered to Harvard by a former captain of Harvard's best post-war team (21-3-2, 1962-'63): Yale's Tim Taylor...
...both the Quakers and the Tigers, 42-32....Keffer had seven assists for the weekend, leaving her just 17 away from breaking the Harvard career record in only her junior year....Dartmouth, the Crimson's next opponent, split over the weekend--losing to Princeton on Friday, but rebounding to defeat Penn the following night...
Last year, when Penn State lost the title to Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, 25-10, it was starting Quarterback John Shaffer's most horrendous game and first defeat since seventh grade. A memory of the aftermath was how bravely he stood up to it. Though this performance probably reinforced the pros' small opinion of Shaffer, there was one touchdown drive in the middle of the game that suggested why he is 66-1 since junior high. "When it's really hanging out there," Paterno said, "Shaffer can do it." The quarterback said, "I feel total ecstasy...