Word: defeats
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Undergraduates went beyond the conventional concerns in their defense of equal treatment and nonprejudicial attitudes. Last spring students organized a Defeat Homophobia group and sponsored discussions on discrimination and harrassment duirng Gay/Lesbian Awareness Days. Students also created an AIDS education outreach service...
Once head of the state's agriculture and services agency and a former public defender, Bird, 49, has been a focus of conservative antagonism since 1977, when she was appointed by liberal Governor Jerry Brown despite a conspicuous lack of judicial experience. A year later she narrowly avoided defeat in a confirmation vote that California justices periodically face. In this year's election, her second, her situation is far worse. The most recent voter survey shows the chief getting swamped by nearly...
Undergraduates went beyond the conventional concerns in their defense of equal treatment and nonprejudicial attitudes. This spring students organized a Defeat Homophobia group and sponsored discussions on discrimination and harrassment during Gay Lesbian Awareness Days. Students also created an AIDs education outreach service...
...recent poll gave Roh a 53% approval rating, but his popularity so far has not transferred to his party. In the April National Assembly elections, the D.J.P. suffered a shocking defeat and was reduced to 125 seats, less than a majority in the 299-seat Assembly. Both Kim Young Sam and Kim Dae Jung, who resigned their party-leadership posts after the debacle of the presidential election, returned, phoenix-like, to the center of the political arena, heading their revived parties during the National Assembly elections...
...letter sent last week to support staff, Anne H. Taylor, who heads the University's effort to defeat the union, said, "Having read the NLRB decisions on list-keeping, including the cases in which election results were set aside, we strongly believe that the union's 'get out the vote' effort on election day went well beyond what is permitted by longstanding NLRB rules...