Word: defeatism
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...that was struggling to post .500 before December to the NCAA championship game,” Banfield says. “She asks for excellence from her teammates but not before demanding it in herself. She is a tough competitor and a classy player—in victory and defeat...
...story on how the French and Dutch rejection of the E.U. constitution derailed the movement toward a united Europe drew mail from those who celebrated the no votes as a defeat of Brussels bureaucrats. Disappointed supporters of Continental integration mourned a missed opportunity Re "Brussels Burnout" [June 13]: by voting against its ratification, the people of France and the Netherlands did not reject the European constitution. They rejected the fat cats sitting in Brussels who get rich at Europeans' expense and arrogantly tell us how to live. The E.U. has the most undemocratic political system, but it could work very...
...More than that, it was a setback for a nation in dire need of a victory - a defeat that has driven France a little deeper into one of its periodic bouts of self-doubt. "I think I can say without chauvinism that we had the best bid," said Jean-Francois Legaret, mayor of the central 1st Arrondissement of Paris. "So since we didn't win, we have to ask ourselves about the weight of everything else that contributed to our loss. Part of it, surely, is the whole idea about us being 'Old Europe,' part...
...Senator Edward Kennedy's lightning-fast characterization of Bork--within an hour of Bork's nomination--as a man who would create an America where "women would be forced into back-alley abortions [and] blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters." The label stuck and helped ensure Bork's defeat. For weeks Progress for America, a conservative coalition that has pledged to spend more than $13 million on television ads to support Bush's eventual nominee, has been running pre-emptive spots that show Senate minority leader Harry Reid calling Bush a "loser" and Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean saying...
...that was struggling to post .500 before December to the NCAA Championship game,” Banfield says. “She asks for excellence from her teammates but not before demanding it in herself. She is a tough competitor and a classy player—in victory and defeat...