Word: defeats
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...play. With patronage, personal connections and city contract money at stake, there is little that is black and white about Chicago mayoral politics. Chicago is the only big city without a non-political civil service. The stakes here are jobs and power, not abstract principles. Victory means gravy, while defeat means unemployment...
...Berkeley, 7-2 However, the Crimson bounced back in its second match, downing Santa Clara, 6-3. Harvard then edged Long Beach 5-4, before falling to Santa Barbara by an identical score. The squad then came up with what Pe called its most inspired performance, a 6-3 defeat of the University of California, Irvine. The netwomen closed out the road trip by losing to two of the nation's top-ranked teams, Pepperdine and USC Pepperdine registered a 9-0 shutout while USC triumphed...
...very defeat of these measures underlines how sorely they are needed. The straw nonbinding presidential preference poll taken at the convention will probably mean very little in the overall scheme of things. But the battle over accountability and rules reform, in which a few party leaders were able to manipulate the proceedings to preserve their power, was a significant display of what ails politics in the state...
...first chapters of the book, however, defeat her. She overwrites, trying to dramatize essentially unexciting background information. We find ourselves mired in such phrases as "that she could embrace his flaws was in the fabric of her passion." A best friend of Jean Harris's, elsewhere sympathetically portrayed, has this stereotype forced upon her. "Ever after, she used the same phrase...'Instant take!' she would exult, tossing back her handsome white-blond head and whinnying like the very expensive palomino pony she much resembles." Alexander's efforts to push this initial descriptive segment of the book to artistic heights falls...
...night newscast and on Nightline when Ted Koppel is away. But whatever else he may do in his career, he is unlikely to find a job that better suits his talents and temperament than jousting with Presidents. "I love this business," he says. "Every day it is victory or defeat, and you do not have to wait to see which...