Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announcement of Safran's defeat comes amid speculation that he may be contemplating departing Harvard. According to a source close to the professor, Safran has abandoned an attempt to win a temporary appointment at a University in France and is currently negotiating with the University of California at San Diego to teach there next year...
...Falklands War came back to haunt both sides in the conflict last week. In Buenos Aires three former junta members were convicted of bungling the ten-week conflict that ended in humiliating defeat for Argentina. Former President Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who launched the war, was sentenced by the country's highest military court to twelve years in prison. The navy and air force chiefs at the time received 14- and eight-year sentences...
...YORK -- Curt Young beat Ron Guidry in a duel of left-handers, as Oakland scored the winning run in the ninth inning on an error by New York center fielder Rickey Henderson to defeat the Yankees, 2-1, Tuesday night...
...political lair of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, is a money machine that raised $5.7 million to back right-wing candidates in the 1984 election, one of the largest war chests collected by any political-action committee in the nation, conservative or liberal. Last week it suffered a resounding defeat on its home ground...
Packed trains from the beleaguered Ukrainian capital streamed into Moscow during the week. Many Kiev passengers were arriving to join families for Friday celebrations of Victory Day, a national holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, but many others were fleeing radiation from Chernobyl. Spokesmen at Moscow's Kievsky Station said extra trains had to be added to handle the crush. Said a Kiev passenger who arrived with two young children and identified herself only as Svetlana: "We started to believe that it might be dangerous for our children at home. They can stay with their grandmother until we know...