Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People can buy apartments," says Pamela A. Bender of the Committee to Defeat Proposition 1-2-3. "They just can't buy rent-controlled apartments...
...People can buy apartments," says Pamela A. Bender of the Committee to Defeat Proposition 1-2-3. "They just can't buy rent-controlled apartments...
...before Tutu's election was announced, the Board approved most of the report's recommendations, even though HRAAA supporters said it was just a heavy-handed attempt to defeat their pro-divestment movement...
...career, launched at a time when many still professed to find something unfeminine in getting into shape and wanting to win, has helped legitimize running and sweating as suitable activities for two generations of women. Moralists hail her sportsmanship. In victory, Evert is exultant but not arrogant. In defeat, she congratulates opponents; she does not whine about maladies and misfortune. She has delighted feminists by regarding herself as a career woman and traditionalists by caring so openly about marriage and future babies...
Many people thought Wimbledon should be Evert's last bow. But after half her life encircling the globe on the tour, Evert wanted to exit at home, with the Stars and Stripes aflutter. She foretold an eventual defeat, if not disaster. Yet from the moment she took the court in the opening round, dressed in royal purple, her departure, like all that had gone before it, was triumph, triumph...