Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year the Engineers upset the Crimson, and Crimson Coach Alex Nahigian said the setback was a motivating factor yesterday. "I'm sure the kids didn't take the team lightly," Nahigian said, adding that this year's Crimson should play more consistently than last year's edition...
...Crimson spent half of its break at Winter Haven, besting the Red Sox farm team, 4-3, there yesterday to avenge a trip-opening 10-8 setback more than a week before. The other game ended in a tie when rains halted play with the score deadlocked...
...late fault call took the first set away from Warren Grossman and Loud, who failed to capitalize on three other set points en route to a 7-6 setback in the first set. Harvard took the second set, 7-5, but the Bruins claimed the third set after UCLA clinched the team competition with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 win at first doubles...
...reversal of the results that had brought Mitterrand to office in May 1981. As a result, the left stood to lose power not in 15 cities, as it had once expected, but in about 40. Conceded Jean Poperen, deputy leader of the Socialist Party: "There has been a certain setback. I don't deny...
Even an opening-game setback can bode well for a team's season, especially if the opponent carries the nation's top ranking...