Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President has come up against some hard realities. The war between the government and the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) has taken more than 60,000 lives and dragged to a stalemate. Salvadoran soldiers have improved, thanks to U.S. training, but they are unable to defeat the guerrillas. When Duarte struck a deal with the rebels for the release of his kidnaped daughter in October 1985, his relations with some top officers suffered. Last October an earthquake devastated much of San Salvador, inflicting more than $1 billion in damages and compounding the country's economic woes...
...defeat the top-ranked New England team and fifth-ranked national club, the Crimson will have another chance of playing--on the grass and in the cold of Cambridge...
Long Island University, favored to defeat Hartwick in the New York regional match, may not be able to provide field conditions satisfying NCAA standards...
...concerned about such important subjects as Star Wars, U.S. involvement in Nicaragua, the failing farm economy and trade imbalances, there is no political polarization over these issues. In part because the election was not a referendum on Reagan, it turned out to be his most resounding political defeat since he lost the presidential nomination to Gerald Ford in 1976. The Democrats scored a sweeping victory in the Senate, where they replaced a 53-to-47 Republican majority with a 55-to-45 majority of their own. The Teflon President seemed to have Teflon coattails: of the 16 Republican Senators...
...opted to take over leadership of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, so the Judiciary Committee chairmanship will fall to Biden. Under Democratic rule, the panel will inevitably give the President a difficult time on judicial appointments. In the past year, even with a Republican majority, the committee helped defeat the district-court nomination of right-wing Ideologue Jefferson Sessions and waged tough fights against the nominations of Daniel Manion to the Seventh Circuit Appeals Court and William Rehnquist to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Moreover, the Judiciary Committee deals with such matters as civil rights, abortion and school...