Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago in New Haven, Conn., the Yale football team ended the worst campaign in its 113-year history as the Elis slumped off the Yale Bowl turf--after a 16-7 defeat by Harvard--losers for the ninth time in 10 Saturdays...
Reagan's change of heart appears to be a major concession to two political realities: he faced defeat in Congress if he continued to resist sanctions, and the bitter fight that would ensue if he attempted to exercise his veto might poison the atmosphere for the entire legislative session. The senior Administration official insisted, however, that the new presidential sanctions do not represent any change in Reagan's views on South Africa. The President, this official said, has always harbored sympathy for the measures in the congressional bill, which a month ago was hammered out by a joint House-Senate...
...consolation that Botha may have felt from the strike's defeat was certain to be overshadowed by Reagan's planned Executive actions. In addition, there were reports in Johannesburg that a group of leading South African businessmen are planning to go to Zambia within the next few weeks to meet with the exiled leaders of the African National Congress and that the businessmen have informed the Botha government of their intentions. In the face of such moves, Botha may well be wondering who his friends really...
...years ago in New Haven, Conn., the Yale football team ended the worst campaign in its 113-year history as the Elis slumped off the Yale Bowl turf--after a 16-7 defeat by Harvard--losers for the ninth time in 10 Saturdays...
...spending limitations agreed upon in the anemic deficit- reduction package passed by Congress in early August. As many as 13 spending bills, including costly farmsubsidy legislation, could reach Reagan's desk. If the legislators were to override his veto on any of them, it would be the first such defeat of his presidency, further eroding his influence. Still, he seems ready to take a strong stand. Last week he stuck to his budget deal with Congress, freezing next year's pay for some 2 million federal civil service workers...