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...sure, the costs of this military buildup have been immense on both sides, and in the end this may be a Pyrrhic "victory" for the U.S. The money which the Pentagon has consumed coupled with general American consumerism, has left little for the levels of investment needed to maintain American economic--and thus, over the long term, diplomatic and military--hegemony...
...funds allocated to state higher education have been cut by $42 million since 1987 to compensate for general budget shortfalls. This year, the governor proposes to return the system to its 1987 levels, and many education officials are calling the proposal a victory--if a Pyrrhic...
Unfortunately for Harvard, the victory turned Pyrrhic when sophomore John Wiesbrod suffered a severe concussion in the first period and had to be carried off the bench on a stretcher...
...some of Vorenberg's peers, his tenure was a Pyrrhic victory at best. Because when the faculty became deadlocked over tenure decisions, it was President Bok who twice in recent years breached the Law School's traditional autonomy and stepped in to make the final decision...
...referendum in one sense was a victory against Offutt's view [of the council] because it proved decisively that undergraduates thought that this student government should discuss issues like divestment," Melendez says. "On the other hand, it was a Pyrrhic victory because...the referendum offended many members of the council who thought that these members were just airing their dirty laundry in public. These were the members...