Word: setback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raid was a stinging setback...
Reagan's human rights nominee drops out after a Senate setback...
Many professors considered it a victory, but the Harvard Corporation's decision last November not to become a minority shareholder in a company that would have used Harvard-owned patents to develop and manufacture drugs using recombinant DNA was a setback of sorts to those who advocated "technology transfer" as a way for the University to make some extra money...
While the DNA company decision represented a theoretical setback to what Harvard might have gained financially had it invested in the firm, the University suffered a tangible loss when a six-alarm fire, set by an arsonist, destroyed the press box in Harvard Stadium in late April, causing an estimated $75,000 in danage. Firefighters fought for 20 minutes to contain the blaze, which was whipped along by winds gusting at times to 45 miles an hour. Police arrested an 18-year-old Boston man, who admitted setting the blaze, three weeks after the fire. Despite the damage, officials...
Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, though visibly shaken by his first-round setback, was hardly resigned to a marginal role under a Mitterrand presidency, however. Indeed, Marchais was quick to show that ill urging his disciplined followers to vote for Mitterrand in last week's runoff, he was making less than a genuine fraternal gesture of leftist solidarity. "This is not a blank check," he said and then asked, "Have you ever seen me support anyone for free?" There is little doubt that the wily proletarian leader will soon be knocking at the portals of Elysée Palace...