Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defending Ivy champion Princeton muddied the Crimson's future by handing the stick women their first league setback, 1-0, Saturday in New Jersey. For Harvard to gain a share of the Ivy crown, the 5-0 Tigers must bow to Dartmouth and the 3-1 Crimson-must stop both Brown and Yale...
Other Arab leaders charge, and many Western experts are worried, that the Israeli expulsion of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Beirut has been a net setback to American interests and influence in the area, since the U.S. is widely, if simplistically, seen in the Arab world as an accomplice in the Israeli invasion. Qaboos does not agree with this view. He thinks the U.S. could get credit for playing a mediating role: "People have now discovered that the West, and the U.S. in particular, could actually do something to bring the situation to an end. They've discovered that...
...just had a hard time getting it to click," Harvard Tri-Captain Kelly Gately said after her squad's second straight setback...
...Harvard cannot expect a rerun of the Gerald Walker no-show today. Harmon has made every practice this week and intends to help his 0-3 team assert itself and reverse a 27-10 setback Harvard administered last year in Ithaca...
...President has not, however, decided to change course after last week's setback. Blustering about his "deep, burning anger," he vowed to use his influence to crush those who opposed his empty amendment. Many Democratic congressional candidates, as well as the 20 Republicans who stood up for reason under intense peer pressure, will have difficulty explaining to impatient constituents why they opposed a measure encouraging a balanced national ledger...