Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should the Crimson defeat the Bulldogs, Harvard would likely face its nemesis--William and Mary...
...should the Crimson defeat the Bulldogs, Harvard would likely face its nemesis--William and Mary...
...only campaign is working fine and that it doesn't need a broader arsenal. Eager to see Senate debate on Kosovo pinched off before it got too divisive, Clinton had Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Defense Secretary William Cohen and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle all working for its defeat. But presidential hopeful McCain still got a few shots in. "The President of the United States is prepared to lose a war rather than do the hard work, the politically risky work, of fighting it as the leader of the greatest nation on earth should fight," McCain said. "I wanted...
...despite the disappointment, the players said they take away many positives from the narrow defeat at the hands of the nationally-ranked Irish...
Perhaps as a result, Washington is determined to squelch rising suspicion that ground troops might well be needed to defeat Milosevic. The Pentagon, the White House and NATO spokesmen spent much of the three-day summit insisting their sustained bombardment of Yugoslavia was paying off. Officials rolled out numbers to tick off progress: after 3,000 target strikes, 16 early-warning radars were gone, half of Serbia's MiG-29s destroyed, two oil refineries eliminated, 25% of stored fuel wiped out, all four vital rail and road links to Kosovo damaged. Never mind that 3 of every 4 bombs were...