Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss of the Sheffield sharpened the political situation for Thatcher and her Cabinet. Even before that setback, the spirit of unified support for the British government in its campaign to win back a territory taken by force had begun to give way, both at home and abroad. Indeed, the change in mood took effect almost immediately after the sinking of the Belgrano...
Last week the U.S. synthetic-fuels program suffered its sharpest blow, one that could prove to be a major setback for large-scale attempts to develop energy alternatives to conventionally obtained oil. Exxon, the world's largest energy company, and the Tosco Corp. pulled out of their multibillion-dollar Colony Shale Oil Project in Colorado, effectively abandoning the most ambitious U.S. synthetic-fuel project...
...search for a new Kirkland House master suffered another setback this week when the faculty search committee's main candidate declined to take the post, John B. Fox, dean of the College, said yesterday...
...Engineers made the most of six hits yesterday, downing the Harvard baseball team, 4-2, at Soldiers Field. The setback dropped the batsmen's record to 7-10 overall and 2-2 in the Eastern League...
...loss drops Harvard's record in Ivy competition to 4-1, leaving the Crimson in a deadlock with Penn, which suffered its only setback of the season at Harvard's hands...