Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans stew in their own juices." O'Neill has already dismissed the Hollings plan and is pushing his own lieutenants in the House to come up with an alternative. Yet one Democratic leader points out that the Speaker may still be nursing wounds from his humiliating defeat in last year's bruising budget battle. "Tip is afraid to take the lead," he said. "He doesn't want it to turn into Reagan vs. O'Neill again...
...really not wisdom at all). Soldiers, it has often been said, have the bad habit of waging the last war. Americans, in their current fretting over El Salvador, are similarly afflicted. Across the political spectrum, there is no one who wants to re-experience in Central America the defeat of Indochina. From that, the left is tempted to conclude: Better not to fight at all, anywhere, ever again. The right concludes the opposite: Fight somewhere, soon, only this time...
There was enthusiastic vocal support from the small crowd built was clear from the start that a few screams of "Let's go Harvard" would not be enough to save the sturggling hoopsters from defeat...
Despite their defeat, Captain Carolyn Powell said last night that she was pleased with the swordswomen's showing, particularly since their third-ranked fencer, junior Beth Schwinn, was out with back injuries. "We haven't even come close in the last four years, we've had scores like 14-2 and 15-1," Powell said. "This is their smallest margin of victory since I've been here...
...other early contests Lisa Harrison and Stimpson both went down to defeat in four games. Against Princeton's Denise Galambos. Harrison won the first game in a tiebreaker but then faltered in the second to allow Galambos to even the score...