Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result was a victory that felt like a defeat. Every game is taxing on a head coach, but winning coaches have a certain glow. Murphy had the harried look of a losing coach, a seemingly remote possibility since the Crimson was a heavy favorite over the hapless Rams...
...with both allies and adversaries, weakening our position for dealing with all of them," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "It calls into question our credibility in negotiating treaties and other foreign policy initiatives, and raises doubts about whether the U.S. is capable of providing leadership." Following the CTBT defeat, the President came out swinging, telling the world that he was engaged in a titanic struggle with "isolationist" Republicans, and that he planned to prevail. That was unlikely to reassure Washington?s friends abroad; the fact that the Senate debacle occurred when partisan skirmishing created a momentum that even Senate...
Yesterday the figure-it-out school was handed a major defeat, and I, admittedly, was at the forefront. Just last week my parents asked how I judge if the day deserves khakis or jeans, a T-shirt, a fleece, a flannel or all three...
...spoken in Alabama, and He?s not a fan of state-sponsored gambling. That?s the line, at least, from Heart of Dixie religious leaders, who spearheaded a successful effort to defeat a proposed state lottery. The lottery was championed by Governor Donald Siegelman, whose 1998 election platform focused almost entirely on his pledge to bring state-sponsored gambling (and the resultant cash) to Alabama. Siegelman, who was understandably nonplussed by Tuesday?s defeat, had planned to use the profits from the lottery to bulk up the state's school budget. The voters? rejection of the referendum paints Alabama...
...what happened between the governor's election and the defeat of the lottery referendum? "The lottery idea was very popular initially," says TIME Montgomery bureau correspondent Ralph Holmes. "But in the past couple of months you?ve had every minister in every pulpit preaching against the lottery, warning that it would link education to gambling - and church people turned out in droves on Tuesday." Not that many of the arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they...