Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After a number of close losses to some of the best teams in the country, including a narrow 2-1 defeat at the hands of No.1 Connecticut and a heartbreaking overtime loss to No.17 Princeton, Harvard finally showed that it could beat one of the top teams in the country...
Triantafillou, who received the third highest number of votes in 1997, is a prominent progressive who has acted on behalf of gay rights and against domestic violence. Her defeat came as a surprise to most familiar with the trends of city council elections...
Despite Triantafillou's defeat, some council members say they remain optimistic about the future of the council...
Yale--having just suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 overtime loss against Hartford three days earlier--saw its hopes crumble when Penn senior midfielder Deane Kocivar-Norbury found junior midfielder Kellianne Toland on a give-and-go for the decisive score. Yale also suffered a 5-0 defeat at the hands of UConn in a week that destroyed the team's hopes for an NCAA tournament berth...
...Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose proposed sweeping revisions to the city charter lost by a margin of 3 to 1. The mayor's opponents characterized his proposed revisions as a power play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...