Word: defeats
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Such fears are not unfounded. The Argentines remain determined to avenge their humiliating defeat. The military regime refuses to admit formally that the war is over, and it has declared April 2 a national holiday. As Argentina prepares to vote for a civilian government in October, politicians of all stripes sound the same theme, calling the islands by their Spanish name: "The Malvinas are ours...
...taxes climbed up over 80 percent on a $30.000 income, even the reticent Swedes began to complain Author Astrid Lindgren wrote a particularly harsh attack when she was assessed for 102 percent of her royalties. The disillusionment with high taxes and government interference at all levels contributed to the defeat of the S-D prime minister Olof Palme in the 1976 elections, just as it helped Ronald Reagan oust then president Jimmy Carter...
WHEN CHICAGO MAYOR Jane Byrne last week announced her intention to run for re-election as a write-in candidate, following her February 22 defeat in the Democratic primary. Chicago's crumbling Democratic party fragmented further. Her intentions drew sharp criticism from local and national Democratic leaders who are supporting Rep. Harold Washington (D-III.) in his effort to become Chicago's first Black mayor. But at the same time, two prominent Chicago Democrats voiced their decision to endorse the Republican candidate, Bernard E. Epton, in the mayoral election April...
...event, the Republican-controlled Senate is almost certain to defeat its version of the resolution early this summer. Within a few weeks, however, a vote is due there on Kenneth Adelman's nomination to be Reagan's new director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Freeze advocates are trying to turn that into a test vote on arms control. "[Defeating] Adelman," says Massachusetts Democrat Paul Tsongas, "will be the Senate's equivalent of a freeze...
...hydrogen weapons and Sputnik foreshadowed a kind of stalemate. Once general nuclear war threatened both sides with tens of millions of casualties, the very existence of nuclear arsenals came to be perceived by many as a menace. Traditional wars had been sustained by the conviction that the consequences of defeat or surrender were worse than the costs of resistance. The nuclear specter banished that conviction. Fewer and fewer objectives seemed worth the cost or the risk...