Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That attitude showed up in games, where the aquawomen, who were fairly successful as a club, found that they could at least stay with, if not defeat, the best teams in the East. In earning a 12-6-1 record, the squad played competitively with powerhouses Brown and Princeton, and topped last year's East Coast champions, Queens...
...protest that rivaled the upheavals of a year ago. The proposals had emerged from dialogue with a faculty liaison committee appointed by Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 to stem the tide of unrest after boycotts, demonstrations, and sit-ins locked the campus last spring. For may, their defeat signaled the failure of student efforts to work within established channels, and previously passive students entered the fray...
...campaign at grain elevators," she says. "I'd walk in and say, 'Hi, I'm Roxanne Conlin and I'm running for Governor.' People would stand there, like 'you're kidding.' One man just laughed for five minutes straight." Conlin lost, but most Iowa political analysts attributed her defeat to the disclosure that she and her millionaire husband paid minimal taxes...
...been cultivating Isabel in an effort to improve his standing with the Perónist party. Alfonsín's Radical Civic Union Party scored a stunning upset victory over the Perónists in elections last October, marking the party's first defeat in a national election since the rise of Juan Perón in 1946. By forging a coalition among Radicals, conservatives and blue-collar workers, Alfonsín captured 52% of the vote, and his party gained control of the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, in Congress. In the Senate, however, control...
...Viet Nam from 1970 to 1975, that aims at a radical transfer of scarce acreage from El Salvador's former feudal oligarchy to the majority of poor campesinos. The program, says a Western diplomat in San Salvador, is "essentially a socialistic program in a country fighting to defeat Marxist rebels...