Word: defeats
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Princeton did Saturday what eight other teams have been unable to do: defeat Yale and turn the Ivy League championship into a legitimate race...
Contradictory results in the two races suggest that if they were meant as a down-home test of Reagan's popularity, the nation is a house divided. As soon as the quirky results were in, a thudding defeat for Coleman by Democrat Charles Robb in normally Republican Virginia, and an apparent narrow victory for Kean over Democrat James Florio in normally Democratic New Jersey, White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes proclaimed the elections were emphatically not "a referendum on the President himself or the President's economic policies...
...delegates applauded. A poll published on the eve of the convention showed that the C.D.U. had gained so much momentum that if a vote were held today, it would win a clear majority of 50.3%. That is a remarkable comeback for a party that suffered the worst defeat in its history only a year ago, when Schmidt's coalition trounced the conservative Minister-President of Bavaria, Franz Josef Strauss, 53.5% to 44.5%, in the national elections, winning 271 seats in the Bundestag, against a total of 226 for the C.D.U. and its companion Christian Social Union...
...such legal action will give Marathon more time to find a white knight with a superior offer. The goal, after all, is to secure the best deal possible before admitting defeat...
...road to defeat has been as well traveled around Evanston as a nearby highway. A campus joke: Interstate 94, Northwestern 0. The "Mildcats," as they are unkindly called, are 2-50-1 over the past five years. So far this season, the team has yielded an average of more than 500 yds. a game and been outscored 386-64, 114-0 in the first quarter alone. The Wildcats have not led in any game...