Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many Arabs, smarting from their defeat at the hands of Israel in the 1967 war, the strutting 27-year-old Gaddafi seemed to provide an image of Arab pride. Gaddafi saw himself as the heir to Nasser's crusade for Arab unity, and he would later form paper unions with Egypt, Morocco, Syria and Sudan. He engineered the ouster of British and American bases in Libya and negotiated shrewd deals with Western oil companies to yield greater revenues for Libya. With that money, Gaddafi set about to make good on his promises of free housing, medical care and education...
Despite the defeat, the Conservatives were relieved that they got to find that Thatcher's recent problems had not done more damage. They ended up with 35% of the vote, well ahead of the Social Democrat-Liberal alliance, which pulled in just...
Last Sunday, when the batswomen (now 8-4) faced three-time defending league champion Princeton in a twinbill, four-hit and five-hit efforts resulted in a double defeat...
...Congress also showed last week that it cared more about the NRA's dollars than it did about the lives of policemen, who swarmed Capitol Hill to defeat a bill which their organizations had labeled "cop-killing...
...Sensing defeat, the visitors began to eschew an unsuccessful inside game in favor of outside shooting...