Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fighting the Burnout Blues" (Feature, Dec. 3), Dr. Charles Ducey of the Bureau of Study Counsel contends that "burnout...means surrendering in the face of defeat." Moreover, it is apparently reflective of a "long-term inability to adapt to rising challenges...
...team's hopes have been raised since the Crimson beat Brown 193-106 at Blodgett on Nov. 19. The Bears are the defending Ivy champions. For Harvard to complete a perfect conference schedule, the Crimson must defeat Penn, Yale and Princeton in meets at Blodgett after the break...
...heavyweight, sophomore Dawid Rechul, who has really come into his own this year, had another impressive tournament to add to the pair of fourth place finishes he has already earned. Rechul's decisive 6-2 defeat of Boe Rushton of Boise State guaranteed him the seventh place spot. Rechul, who came close to defeating Penn's All American Bandele Adenyi-Bada at the Ivy Classic, continued to prove this weekend that he can contend with the nation's best...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--Entering Saturday's game at Union, the Harvard men's hockey team had scored just five goals in its last three games--all of them losses. Another defeat would send it below .500 for the first time all season...
...Federal Security Service at Pervomayskoye, site of one of Russia's worst humiliations in the 1994-96 Chechen war. A Chechen leader named Salman Raduyev had seized the village, taken hostages and for days beaten back attacks by elite Russian units. Mikhailov was responsible for explaining this mortifying defeat to Russians and to the world. His performance was roundly denounced as inflammatory and wildly inaccurate, and he was fired. He is back as one of the chiefs of the Rosinformcenter, the official voice of the Russian government in its latest and so far more successful effort to regain control...