Word: defeats
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...retain some say in the area Nixon, for example was elected in part as a reaction against the war. If he had really wanted to, he could have resolved the problem a lot sooner. Instead, by prolonging a lost and immoral cause. Nixon assured the total defeat of the U.S. and the predominance of the Soviet Union in the area...
...ground of the University of Wisconsin Hockey team. The team that has made it to the national semifinals six times in the last 12 years. A team that won the national championships in 1973 1977 and 1981. A team that this year is 32 10 Loverall and alter its defeat of North Dakota in the western Collegiate Hockey Association finals number one in the country...
Harvard faces Princeton Saturday at the IAB, the travels to division-rival Albany State Sunday. Princeton, the only team to defeat the Crimson in match play thus fat, is not in the New England division...
...expanding its base of support by sharing power. But the fundamental cause of a civil war (of which guerrilla war is a special category) is the breakdown of domestic consensus. Compromise, the essence of democratic politics, is its first victim. Civil wars almost without exception end in victory or defeat, never in coalition governments-the favorite American recipe. Concessions are ascribed to the weakness of those holding power, not to their magnanimity, and hence, perversely, may accelerate rather than arrest the disintegration of authority. The proper time for reform is before civil wars break out, in order to pre-empt...
...slipped into city hall to register his candidacy for the job of local conseiller général (commissioner). The post is minor, but the candidate, former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 56, is anything but. After nine months of private life following his defeat by Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Party last May, Giscard has returned once again to the stump. Though the former President is taking his mini-campaign seriously, he eschews his old trappings of higher office: chauffeured limousines, bodyguards and pumped-up rallies. "Those," observes Giscard, "are simply not the local...