Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe rugby team resumed play after a three-week lay-off by splitting a pair of games at the Great Pumpkin Tournament held at Cornell. The Black and White lost its first round match to Courtland, 12-6, but then came back in the consolation round to defeat Syracuse...
...Campaign to defeat Proposition 1 is another that has attracted a lot of student involvement this fall. The proposition is a referendum question that would give the state legislature more control over the funding and regulation of abortions...
While no Harvard students have visibly campaigned for the initiative, Ladin estimated that 100 Harvard students had actively worked in the campaign to defeat...
Although acute infections like influenza kill thousands each year, most people defeat their tiny attackers. Still, they may suffer while the battle is being waged. Indeed, many of the typical symptoms of infection -- fever, chills, itchy rashes, localized swelling -- are due less to the virus than to the vigorous activity of the immune system. However, once the body has created a population of antibody-producing B cells designed to combat a specific virus, immunity to that virus often lasts for decades, or even a lifetime. Then why does the common cold return again and again? One reason, scientists explain...
California conservatives are loathe to waste such an opportunity to spread their revolution into the judiciary. The Right has spared no expense in a campaign to oust the Court's three most liberal Justices, knowing that their defeat will enable Republican Governor George Deukmejian to appoint new, conservative Justices and thereby shift the ideological balance of the Court...