Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DORCHESTER--With booming rock music and cheering volunteers, the Dorchester campaign rally last night certainly sounded like a victory. But all the enthusiasm in the world couldn't make up for the defeat of their candidate, Joseph Tierney, who last night lost the city's biggest-ever landslide election for mayor...
...landslide defeat and the concession speech did not sober Tierney's supporters...
Been there for the devastating loss at Cornell in the final minute of a game three weeks ago. Been there to suffer--really suffer--their first and only defeat of the 1987 season...
...even a global depression like the one ushered in by the 1929 Crash? What would happen to the dollar, to interest rates, to world trade? What might Ronald Reagan do to calm the markets? Could a President who was so weakened by the Iran-contra affair and the impending defeat on the Bork nomination, and who was distracted by war in the Persian Gulf and his wife's cancer operation, possibly quell the financial turmoil? Did he even understand that he faced a first-class crisis of confidence in his leadership...
Both Cornell and Yale remain in the league race with a single defeat. The teams clash next week in New Haven, and the winner will emerge as Harvard's main competitor for league honors...