Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stakeout, the House of Representatives had voted 350 to 73 to override the veto--far exceeding the required two-thirds majority. Now the override depended on two-thirds of the 100 Senators. Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd had to keep his troops disciplined; only 34 "no" votes could defeat the override...
...battle and lost. And, contradicting the rampant charges of "liberal bias in the media," the next day's papers failed to report this fact's significance. Consequently, the override battle will likely lose importance in perspective, continuing the process which began with the speeches 10 minutes after Reagan's defeat...
...only with the help of such groups. Some Aquino-appointed government officials, however, complain that the private armies often shoot first and ask questions later. It is a measure of the challenge facing Aquino that by giving her generals the tools they say they need to defeat the Communist rebels, she risks alienating some of her most ardent supporters...
...another said FARMS NOT ARMS. But mostly it was a greening vista of kids and parents on lawns fresh with forsythia; they were eager to show off Hickman High, one of the tops in the nation, whose tag is the Kewpies because its first athletic teams smiled through defeat...
...Spinoza and believes that a sound classical education constitutes an excellent preparation for life. Outside, in January 1945, the war is still going on. But aside from a shortage of food and fuel, it has not troubled this serenely bourgeois Dutch family. And with the Germans obviously headed for defeat, they may perhaps be forgiven the slightly smug aura that hovers about them. It seems as if their faith in the eternal values of liberal humanism has triumphed over the hurly-burly of modern history...