Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS SUMMER, the Supreme Court frustrated 10 years of fevered anti-abortion organizing, upholding and even strengthening its 1973 ruling guaranteeing women the right to an abortion. Coupled with the defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment banning abortion, crities thought the court's decree would smash an already splintered "Right to Life" movement. But just Thursday the House of Representatives again approved the controversial Hyde Amendment to the budget resolution--a measure forbidding the use of Medicaid funds to pay for abortions that has been in effect for seven consecutive years. Obviously, the movement still has clout...
Well, a whole lot of help came awful quickly yesterday, and it came in the name of Ellen O'Neill. Just two days after the Crimson had suffered its worst defeat in three years, O'Neill led the squad to a nail-biting 2-1 win over Providence College in Providence...
...never tire of listening and hoping. So perhaps it was a natural out growth of our own fervent mythmaking that the great march in Washington a fortnight ago hinged its new agenda on the defeat of Ronald Reagan. Get a new man in the White House, the 300,000 people seemed to say, and the desires of 700 disparate marching organizations - whether they be chiefly concerned with black progress, gay rights, women's issues, environmental problems, unemployment or nuclear war - will be instantly gratified. How splendidly simple; how cruel to themselves...
...month? So now, we have rent control. I am the deciding vote that makes it law. I have used my power as an elected official to restrain the collective power of the entire real estate industry in the City of Cambridge. They hate me. Every election they organize to defeat me. But on the first of every month, I know there are 21,000 Cambridge households that have a better chance of making ends meet because of the way I have chosen to use the power that I have...
...earthquake had shaken the ground, birds in the town square were squawking feverishly, and all night long the wind whipped through the streets. In addition, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has won every major election in Mexico since its founding in 1929, had last month absorbed its worst defeat ever, losing nine municipal and five legislative seats in two northern states. On the eve of last week's elections for the legislature in the impoverished southern state of Oaxaca, where leftists had been successfully organizing, and wooing, local peasants, another P.R.I, loss seemed imminent. Yet when the votes...