Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisis has also posed questions that more directly affect the American people: Is El Salvador a new Viet Nam? Is the U.S. about to repeat the mistakes that led it into the greatest single setback to its military power, political prestige and national self-confidence in this century? The news media have repeatedly been asking that of late. So have Senators and Congressmen in their interrogation of Government witnesses. So have academics and student leaders at teach...
...civilian-military government, gave figures that were much lower: "about eleven" aircraft and four of the helicopters that are so useful in fighting El Salvador's long-smoldering guerrilla war were destroyed. There was no doubt, however, that the insurgents had dealt the government a major setback. Said a U.S. military officer about the airport raid: "Disastrous...
...bring up items like the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and warn that the course of events in Poland will affect START negotiations. Said a State Department spokesman: "The Secretary has emphasized that the continuing repression of the Polish people, in which Soviet responsibility is clear, obviously constitutes a major setback for constructive East-West relations...
...strongest condemnation of the events in Poland was issued by the Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council, which had been one of the most effective peace groups that organized protests against the deployment of U.S. missiles. The council conceded that the situation in Poland had been an enormous setback for the pacifist movement. Said Council Leader Mient-Jan Faber: "We were bewildered and outraged...
...cereal case was also a landmark setback for the Government's novel antitrust theory that a group of companies can "share" a monopoly. The FTC's staff had charged that the three firms had a "tacit understanding" that kept cereal prices high and stopped competitors from entering the business. If the cereal makers had lost their case, the shared monopoly doctrine might have been used against autos, aluminum and other industries dominated by a few firms...