Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...P.F.P. was the official opposition party in the outgoing Parliament, but that role will now be assumed by the Conservatives. The New Republic Party, another liberal group, lost four of its five seats. Acknowledged Progressive Leader Colin Eglin: "I cannot deny that the results pose a major setback for the P.F.P. and the concept of a reform alliance developing into an alternative government. There is no doubt that the election in its totality represents a lurch to the right...
...which seemed to belie any special relationship between the two leaders. Then two weeks ago the Japanese parliament forced Nakasone to withdraw a cherished plan to impose a sales tax. The controversial measure was part of a broad effort to stimulate the economy by reforming the tax system. The setback placed the Prime Minister in desperate need of a foreign policy triumph to help keep him in office until his term ends in October...
Before that setback, however, Zadeh was quite a convincing con man: he stung one of North's associates for $250,000, and the colonel himself interceded with the FBI on his behalf in July 1985. The bizarre incident, which outgoing FBI Director William Webster disclosed to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, offers yet another example of North's overreaching, amateurish operations. More significantly, it indicates that North told Reagan at least once of his efforts to raise money for the contras, despite the official ban on U.S. Government aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
...setback for opponents of such research, and for Rifkin in particular. But it does not mean smooth sailing for the genetic engineers. Strict guidelines are now in place, and as long as there are industry watchdogs, every experiment will be closely checked. Rifkin shows no signs of giving up. "We will battle every step of the way," he promised last week. "This protest is not going to go away." For Lindow, however, the long battle was over. Said he, when the tubers were finally in the ground: "It's quite a relief to finally see science progress...
...setback came in the case of Warren McCleskey, a black man convicted of killing a white Atlanta police officer during a 1978 robbery. Lawyers for McCleskey argued that race had played a part in his being sentenced to die in Georgia's electric chair -- the race of his victim as well as his own. The principal supporting evidence was a statistical study of more than 2,000 Georgia murder cases from 1973 to 1979. Conducted by University of Iowa Law Professor David Baldus and two colleagues, the study found that those who killed whites were 4.3 times as likely...