Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flashy as Diana, he nevertheless gives defenses headaches with his versatility. He had two touchdown runs of more than 65 yards last week against an admittedly weak Penn team, but he will not let Yale's vaunted run defense off easily. Steady Jim Acheson lends depth at the setback position, and any of the Crimson wide receivers are threats in the Multiflex rushing arsenal...
...refusal to join in the Camp David process, called the Fahd plan "worthy of consideration," and insisted that the P.L.O. ought to be brought into any negotiations with Israel. His announcement that he had agreed to buy ground-to-air missiles from the Soviets was an especially startling setback for U.S. officials, who knew that Hussein had been talking to Moscow, but had no inkling that such a deal had actually been concluded...
...hard not to view this as a setback. But movies were too ingrained in Nicholson's blood to be discarded after a few dozen failures; he turned to personal experience to improve his literary output. He wrote about drugs. The Trip (1967), directed by Corman and starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Bruce Dern, detailed, in an obscure way, an L.S.D. experience. Not coincidentally, wife Sandra had experienced a bad trip; understandably, she implored Jack not to work on such a screenplay; not surprisingly, he doggedly persevered, and she packed up and left with daughter Jennifer before The Trip...
...After Camp David, the Israeli annexation of Jerusalem was assured, the settlements on the West Bank increased, and the destruction of Lebanon and its people continued with even greater ferocity by Israeli troops and warplanes. The rule of the Israelis on the West Bank became even more oppressive. The setback to the Palestinian people by the treaty was incalculable. All of this happened after Camp David, and so it is hard to reconcile the realities with the praise that is being showered on Sadat by the Western media...
...Labor Party. Meanwhile, at a fish and chips place a few blocks away, Tony Benn, Healey's unsuccessful leftist challenger, sipped Coke from a can and ruminated on the sudden show of vigor from the party's moderates that had given the radicals their first setback in two years...