Word: defeats
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...part, Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson did neither when he was up for re-election last November, but he came close enough to defeat: his margin of victory was a mere 5,074 votes. Last week the Washington Post reported that in the middle of Thompson's hard-fought race he altered the method by which Illinois' weekly unemployment statistics are reported to the U.S. Labor Department. The gambit, which is used by other states and met with no objection from the Labor Department, conveniently maintained Illinois' unemployment-insurance payment rate at precisely the level needed...
...fiery debate that preceded the balloting illustrated, Ronald Reagan has at last succeeded in getting the U.S. public excited about his Central American policy, but in a manner opposite to any that he ever intended. For there was no question what had caused the defeat. It was a series of ill-tuned revelations, in particular the disclosure that the U.S. had begun a number of highly visible?and, say critics, highly inflammatory?military maneuvers in Central America. Over the next six months, a total of 19 U.S. warships will take part in exercises off both coasts of Nicaragua...
...proposed scrapping the Administration's self-imposed limit of 55 American military advisers in El Salvador (actually, the number now is 47) and increasing the force to 125. Its argument is simply that 55, or 47, advisers are not enough to tram Salvadoran forces on the scale required to defeat the leftist guerrillas. The Pentagon also proposed that the advisers be allowed to accompany Salvadoran government forces in the field, which is prohibited now, though they still would not be allowed to join in actual combat. Asked about a larger force at his news conference, Reagan insisted that...
Supporters of the increase are worried that a defeat would unsettle the world's banking system. "It would send a very discouraging signal to world financial markets and the countries most in need of new credits," says one U.S. official...
...place. The authors do, however, applaud the Prime Minister's Churchillian tenacity once there was no turning back. "The figure of Margaret Thatcher towers over the Falklands drama from its inception to the euphoria of the final triumph," they conclude. "Her single-mindedness, even her arch phraseology ('Defeat-I do not recognize the meaning of the word!'), all seemed to armor her against any suspicion that this might be a dangerous, even absurd, adventure...