Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What shaped up as a big step in the Harvard men's lacrosse team's late-season surge turned instead on Saturday into its worst defeat since the season opener...
...loss was the third extra-innings defeat for the Crimson in the tournament and the disheartened Cantabs played out the string, losing to Yale, 7-1 and Dartmouth...
...Senate's rejection of withholding was a particularly bitter defeat for Dole, who had assailed the banking lobby for calling the plan a "new tax" when it was really designed to catch tax cheaters and collect some $5.2 billion this year from the 20 million people who fail to report fully their interest and dividend income. Dole had filibustered gamely against the repeal bill, which was sponsored by Republican Bob Kasten, a freshman Senator from Wisconsin. But Dole last week could count only 27 other Senators (including 24 of 54 Republicans) on his side, and three of them were...
...addition to the mayoral debacle, the machine lost control of seven seats on the 50-member city council. Washington predicted that the organization would now "drift off into the woods and die." Yet the machine has shown remarkable resilience in the past, rising from defeat to wheel and deal again. Washington has only 20 sure supporters on the powerful city council, six short of a working majority. "He will probably have to cut a deal with at least part of the organization," says Rakove...
...year since Argentina's attempt to seize the Falkland Islands ended in a humiliating defeat by British forces, the military government has never issued a full explanation for the fiasco. Former President Leopoldo Galtieri, who masterminded the foiled invasion and then left office in disgrace three days after his country's surrender, has finally lifted that veil of secrecy. His candid account of military incompetence and official bungling stunned not only his countrymen but members of the ruling three-man junta and his successor, President Reynaldo Bignone. Last week the government charged Galtieri with violating military regulations that...