Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson handed Manhattan only its second defeat in 10 outings this year. One of its victories was a one-point decision over perennial Ivy champion Pennsylvania. The upset victory raises Harvard's record to 4-5 (0-1 in Ivy play...
...funereal pall hung over the wood-paneled conference room of the headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party in Bonn. Even Chancellor Helmut Kohl's characteristic good humor had given way to a gloomy frown as he contemplated the party's surprising defeat the previous Sunday in local elections in the city-state of Hamburg. It was the last test of strength before the national elections Kohl plans to hold on March 6 in hopes of winning a mandate for his three-month-old conservative coalition government. Said the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "The result is both...
...have carried the U.S. across a threshold: after years of reliance on the doctrine that nuclear weapons can deter the Soviets, the American Government is now in the hands of those who believe in the far more dangerous notion that such weapons can be used to defeat and destroy the Soviet Union...
...least it will pass the House as an amendment to a "continuing resolution" providing funding for most of the Government. The Republican Senate is expected to defeat the bill this week, but the ensuing Senate-House conference may compromise by approving half the money, or $2.5 billion. Reagan, who sternly opposes "make-work" projects, is likely to veto the measure, thus stopping all Government funding and forcing Congress back into session Christmas week either to override his veto or to pass a stopgap spending bill without the public works money...
...Defense Minister under Charles de Gaulle, led a censure motion against the Mitterrand government's defense policy in the National Assembly. Messmer attacked the "mere 15%" of public spending devoted to the military as "the weakest figure since the second World War." The Socialists used their majority to defeat the motion, but in the Assembly debate Mauroy had to concede that possible changes in manpower levels were indeed being considered...