Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the final measure was released, environmentalists rushed to declare defeat. What angered them most was a provision that would allow automakers to build some cars that spew out more hydrocarbons than they do under current law, even though new overall emissions standards would be tougher than before. The carmakers could do that by averaging the emissions of every car they ^ produce in a given model year, offsetting the most polluting vehicles with less polluting models. Auto-company experts do not dispute the environmentalists' interpretation of the "fleet-averaging" provision, but they insist that the bottom line will still...
...tackles the internal reasons as well--the frequency of fatherless Black children, the self-defeat of internalized racism, the misplaced hostility towards easy victims who are not the real causes of oppression, the misdirected activism towards dead-end causes...
...Larry Holmes and Ali. Foreman, the boxer turned preacher, is older than the other ex-champs who tried in vain to return. Some of them embarrassed themselves. Some of them got flattened. Boxing experts snicker that there are only two kinds of opponents Foreman can be counted on to defeat. One kind is hooked up to a respirator. The other can be found lying on a sesame-seed bun in the company of pickles and catsup...
...groom wore black and white and looked pale. His bride was glowing in a pristine white gown, even though it was the third time around for both of ! them. After a public affair that helped bring about his defeat in last month's elections, former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 70, and Dimitra Liani, 35, were married last week in Athens. "This is the happiest day of my life," he gushed...
...radical P.R.D., to win an election to restore the ruling party's lost credibility. Others theorize that Salinas has a vision of Mexico that does not include a monopoly on power by a single party. By forcing the increasingly sclerotic P.R.I. into an opposition role, goes the argument, the defeat in Baja will eventually lead to a more resilient political system. Perhaps. But what no one disputes is that the state of the economy was a major factor behind Salinas' decision to loosen P.R.I. control...