Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Outgoing Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, on the presidential election last November that saw President Bush defeat former K-School lecturer Michael S. Dukakis...
Harvard wasn't necessarily playing poorly--it simply wasn't playing at the level necessary to defeat a top-flight opponent such...
...open the tournament, Harvard dropped a three-set match to eventual champion Princeton, 13-15, 15-11 and 10-15. The Tigers' second set defeat was its only loss in the tournament...
...defeat to the Tigers was on the squad's mind...
...leaders lost. Estonians even had the courage to vote down the republic's KGB chief. The city party leader in Leningrad, running against an unknown 28-year-old shipyard engineer, received only 15% of the vote. In fact, the five top Communists in the Leningrad power structure tumbled to defeat. Valeri Terekhov, a member of Leningrad's Democratic Union, an opposition group, noted, "Gorbachev opened a volcano, and I don't think he realized the lava was so deep...