Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phyllis Schlafly is happy about the ERA'S defeat. She is proud to deny rights to less fortunate women who have only what they can earn. Schlafly is the modern Marie Antoinette. What we needed was a Joan...
...government launched the invasion of Lebanon largely to destroy the P.L.O. as a force in Middle East politics. Seeing the organization emerge from the wreckage of Beirut with new respectability would thus, in Jerusalem's view, amount to letting a brilliant military victory turn into a galling political defeat. There is a worldwide suspicion, too, that Begin's government has no intention of ever negotiating Palestinian self-determination (a code word for eventual statehood) with the P.L.O. or anyone else, but aims instead at a creeping annexation of the West Bank...
...Iran-Iraq war. It is some consolation, though, that except for the U.S., no nation has enough influence on either the Arabs or the Israelis, let alone both, even to try for a Beirut-Palestinian settlement. The Soviets, having failed to keep Syria and the P.L.O. from military defeat at the hands of Israel, have been at least temporarily pushed out of the picture, as attested by Khaddam's presence in Washington rather than Moscow. Soviet President Brezhnev last week suggested a U.N. force to separate Israeli and P.L.O. fighters in Lebanon, and a Middle East peace conference...
When Ford and Dole lost the election, former President Richard Nixon warned Dole that "it's getting to be scapegoat time and you're going to be blamed." Dole admits that the defeat depressed and soured him for a time. By early 1978, however, he was able to joke about the episode at a Washington Gridiron Club dinner. "I'll never forget the Dole-Mondale debate," he said. "Three empty chairs got up and walked out. I was supposed to go for the jugular...
...country wants. The people have reposed confidence in my family dating back to my grandfather because they feel we are sincerely concerned. I do not know whether the people will continue to vote for my family when the time comes. After all, I had a very big defeat...