Word: defeats
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Harvard can take some comfort in the fact that its debacles against William & Mary and Holy Cross (a 41-0 defeat last week) will not count in the league standings. Only the Crimson's opening day 34-0 demolition of Columbia is registered on the Ivy slate...
...amendment consisted of a mere eight words attached to a motion that went on for a full page. But at the annual conference of Britain's Liberal Party last week in the resort city of Eastbourne, those eight words provoked an impassioned three-hour debate, led to a humiliating defeat for Party Leader David Steel and could quite conceivably affect the course of the next general election. By the thin margin of 27 votes, out of a total 1,277 cast, delegates passed a motion calling on Britain to assume a more active role in bolstering NATO, "providing that such...
...Republicans, holding on to the majority could help protect the Reagan Revolution from paralysis for another two years, giving the party momentum as it heads into the '88 sweepstakes. Democrats would interpret a Republican defeat in the Senate as a sign of the public's dissatisfaction with Reagan's policies. An intransigent Democratic majority could thwart the Administration's legislative agenda, turning the President into a genuine lame duck and perhaps stealing some of the thunder from the Republicans in the contest to succeed Reagan...
Last year the President adroitly headed off a similar defeat by announcing an Executive Order that imposed some of the sanctions included in a bill then pending in Congress. Among them: a restriction on loans by Americans to South African government agencies and a ban on the export of most nuclear technology and materials. But the current legislation, passed during an election year and at a time when American outrage against South Africa is on the rise, goes much farther. It bans all new American investment in and bank loans to South Africa, as well as air traffic between...
...President elected in 1988 will be as willing to deal as Reagan has become or will have the enormous popularity that would enable Reagan to sell a bargain to the U.S. public. Gorbachev seems eager for an arms deal of some kind: he might suffer a heavy propaganda defeat if he refused to go to a summit, but he has vowed repeatedly not to be put off again with a smile and a handshake as he was in Geneva. In recent days the Soviets seem to have seized on an INF agreement as an excuse rather than a precondition...