Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rose's total inability to handle money; Anita has confronted Rose on that. Those ballet lessons Rose is so delighted with cost $500. Anita is very careful to do two things at once with Rose: to make her believe that everything is possible, and to prepare her for defeat, so that she won't collapse. That strategy applies to Mallory, Maria, Tony and Ingrid, and, I imagine...
...only woman ever nominated for Vice President by a major political party, Geraldine Ferraro emerged from the shambles of the Democrats' 1984 defeat with her political fortunes damaged but by no means destroyed. Moreover, a New York Senate seat held by a Republican was coming up for grabs in 1986, offering the former Congresswoman a chance to get back to Washington. But last week Ferraro took herself out of the Senate contest and, at least temporarily, off the political stage. At a crowded press conference held in the Queens Borough Hall, where she had appeared last year with Running Mate...
...candidates, have filed a total of ten petitions with the Supreme Court challenging the legality of the snap election. The court scheduled a hearing for this week on the matter, but a ruling may not come for weeks. Opposition members, including Aquino, have warned that if Marcos senses impending defeat at the polls, he might signal the justices, all of them handpicked by him, to call off the election. With a respected constitutional expert like Tolentino on Marcos' team, the ploy might gain greater credibility...
...could re-define pornography as "non-speech," not falling under the aegis of the First Amendment. But while the current wildly permissive interpretation of the Bill of Rights would never permit anti-pornography legislation, newer theories of justice, such as Rawls's and communitarianism, cannot be used to defeat such ordinances...
...stand by the other slogans. The heroic victory of Vietnamese workers and peasants was an important defeat for U.S. imperialism. And today, the U.S. bourgeoisie sees Central America as its starting point for a war ultimately aimed at destroying the Soviet Union. We in the SYL believe that he Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is the single greatest victory of the international working class to date, and the greatest defeat for world imperialism. In spite of the parasitic Stalinist bureaucracy which has usurped political power from the proletariat, the central gains of a planned collectivized economy still remain...