Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urges a sharing of wealth among nations as a means of ending poverty. There was, however, one regional pastoral letter which the Cardinal neglected to discuss. This one was circulated last year by the church's local hierarchy advising priests to urge their parishioners to lobby public officials to defeat a proposed law which, if passed, would grant gays and lesbians basic protections in employment and housing--rights already granted to many other groups...
...will hold on to them. However, when his beliefs are translated into words and actions which have a negative impact on people, he has crossed a critical line. This is when he must be confronted and must be made to realize that each time the Catholic Church advocates the defeat of laws to insure an entire group of people their basic civil and human rights, great numbers of just and gentle lesbians and gays will internalize society's prejudices and will hate themselves a little bit more. Each time a priest speaks of the concept of natural law during Sunday...
Harvard's dynamic doubles duo of Vigna and Smith, rebounding from a 4-6 first set defeat, notched 6-2 and 6-4 victories in the remaining two sets. The Crimson's Boss and Martha Berkman, playing in the second slot in doubles, trampled Pennsylvania's Price and Robins in straight sets...
...Heavies can get their revenge against Navy on April 26, when they host the Midshipmen and Penn on the Charles. With a sound defeat of Princeton two weeks ago, Navy appears to be the strongest early challenger aiming to dethrone Harvard...
Cornell probably earned itself the tournament'stop seed by virtue of its victory over Radcliffelast fall--the Black and White's lone defeat ofthe year...