Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...setback marked Harvard's fourth straight narrow defeat and brought the squad's final record to 12-14 overall, 4-10 in the Ivy League. A season of near misses--eight losses by six points or fewer--ended with one of the nearest misses...
...through the support of radical leaders in the local council. Thatchell loudly backed radical socialism, gay rights, and extraparliamentary opposition to the government; his opponents responded with death threats and allegations about his sexual preferences. In the wake of all the vitriol, Labour leaders preferred, understandably, to attribute the defeat to the "Thatchell Factor" rather than to any lapse in public confidence...
...political machine that has dominated the city for 50 years. The Black candidate has pledged to destroy the complex and entrenched system of patronage that became a hallmark of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley's administration. Backed by the city's large minority population. Washington will most definitely defeat Republican candidate Bernard Epton come April. And once the new administration takes office, the estimated 45,000 city employees who scratched backs with Daley and now-lame duck Mayor Jane Byrne may no longer be assured of a job and a fat paycheck each Friday...
...Chicago political machine should be of interest to Boston residents, where Mayor Kevin H. White now leads a political frame work consciously based on Daley's Chicago apparatus. The Hub may well feel the gales from the Windy City, and the populist backlash that dethroned Byrne may defeat Boston's four-term mayor...
Flynn concedes that he will not defeat White with a bigger war chest. He is repeatedly frustrated at not being able to outmaneuver White, especially on television...