Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democrats are "talking" among themselves in an effort to reform--through the DNC's Commission on Presidential Nomination--a variety of their party rules that experts say contributed to the Democrats' defeat in 1980. "We can change things for 1984," Brown said, adding that "our process is already in motion, although it's always helpful to get other views and ideas...
...another battle of wills between the White House and Capitol Hill on fiscal restraint, and the ambiguous outcome did credit to neither branch of Government. In what Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin aptly described as the "lost weekend," Ronald Reagan responded to his first defeat in Congress by casting his first veto. The President did so in defense of frugal government. Yet he acted at a moment when the Government was technically out of funds, and for one astonishing day, the federal bureaucracy actually began to shut down. Placed in a no-win situation, Congress grudgingly gave Reagan...
...Washington, officials had little alternative but to swallow hard and accept their policy defeat. The U.S. was able to take some comfort in the fact that American firms will also benefit from the project. About half of the compressors used to propel gas through the pipeline are of U.S. design, and all of the 125 turbines driving them will be built by European firms under license from General Electric. In addition, the Soviets have decided to buy the equipment that will haul and lay the heavy sections of 56-inch pipe from the Caterpillar Tractor...
Harvard got off to a fast start in the 200-yd. medley, when the team of Mary Rentoumis. Susan Kim. Terri Frick, and Diane Smith set a new school record of 1:55.64. But the time wasn't fast enough to defeat the Eagles...
...Carter's defeat was based on a failure to deal with the economic issue," he said. "The job of democrats is to conscientiously seek to change things for the better and not be afraid to use government to do it," he added...