Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, a centrist who supported Chirac, said Mitterrand's re-election was a defeat for the government's center-right policies...
...this Mother's Day weekend, the Harvard heavyweight crew squad took these words to heart, beating previously-undefeated Northeastern in choppy waters on the Charles River Saturday morning. The victory followed the crew's first defeat of the season last weekend, also in rough conditions down in Annapolis...
Chirac conceded defeat shortly after the polls closed. Mitterrand supporters drove along the main Champs-Elysees Avenue cheering and honking horns...
Monday was the Council's last chance to act onthe petition, and Councillor Alice K. Wolf saidits supporters on the Council debated whether tobring it to a vote, since its defeat was certain...
...some, though, an end to the war is only the first of the country's many + desperate needs. Though the government recently announced a series of economic reforms and introduced a new currency in a bid to defeat an annual inflation rate of some 1,500%, few people believe it is capable of extracting Nicaragua from the economic mire in which the country finds itself. "We all want peace more than anything else," says Julio Duarte, a salesman from Managua who sells cheap cosmetics and novelties to the stores in Pantasma. "But peace and prosperity don't necessarily go hand...