Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catalyst seems to have been a significant setback in the push for equal rights under the law. The Equal Rights Amendment died in June, the victim of a handful of intransigent legislators ignoring overwhelming popular support...
...accounting and worked for two brokerage firms before starting his own partnership in 1975. His first big success came two years later when he made an estimated $7 million in the takeover battle for Babcock & Wilcox Co., the electrical power plant manufacturer. Before last week's setback, he had parlayed a $4.1 million investment into a firm with assets of $300 million in less than two years. A stylish dresser, Boesky stays in shape for his 18-hr, workdays by playing squash or tennis four times a week. Says he of risk arbitrage: "If one is willing to work...
...Portland resident who is one of the country's most respected architects. Belluschi, however, later relented and said he was getting used to it. Other objectors persisted, calling the building "a turkey" and "a giant jukebox." Graves was asked to simplify his design. He considered this a terrible setback and lobbied hard and semisuccessfully to get his garlands back. The Metropolitan Arts Commission held a competition for the Portlandia sculpture, to be paid for through the city's public art program...
...weapons test was a success; the freeze movement suffered a setback, though not by much. In a 204-to-202 vote, the House of Representatives endorsed an Administration-backed resolution that supports nuclear arms reduction in theory but shies away from backing a policy of freezing U.S. and U.S.S.R. arsenals at present levels, as proposed by the competing resolution of Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Clement Zablocki. While purely advisory in nature, the vote was regarded in Washington as a symbolic test of support for the President and his policies...
...along been a cherished goal of the Reagan Administration, which has vigorously attacked governmental bureaucrats and their safety standards as being major contributors to Detroit's maladies. But the Administration's ongoing effort to end what automen as well regard as officious federal meddling received a serious setback last week. That occurred when a federal appeals court in Washington ordered the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to reinstate a regulation requiring automakers to install air bags or automatic, self-buckling seat belts in their 1984-model cars...