Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been singled out as evidence of the booming service economy's inability to create dignified and meaningful new work. Says Robert Reich, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "Compared to the old blue-collar jobs that have been lost, these jobs represent a serious setback...
Nonetheless, the Paraiso attack, in which the guerrillas lost only ten of their men, was both a setback to President Jose Napoleon Duarte's Christian Democratic government and a reminder to the U.S. that shoring up democracies in Central America is neither cheap nor painless. Drawing further attention to the price of the U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran war, the CIA announced last week that one of its employees had been killed in a helicopter crash in the eastern part of the country. Though the CIA did not identify him, the dead man was believed to be Richard Krobock...
...valuable race to have," six-man Austin Moore said, comparing the setback to the varsity heavyweight loss on opening day two years ago to a weaker Brown crew. The heavies bounced back, though, and eventually took the national championship...
...Government, it was a disappointing setback. Gotti's acquittal marked federal prosecutors' first defeat in a vigorous war against the Mob that has put many organized-crime kingpins behind bars for long prison terms. Two weeks ago, in the "pizza connection" case, 17 mobsters were convicted of selling tons of heroin and cocaine through pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. In December, eight of New York's powerful crime bosses were convicted of running a vast network of criminal activities. Last October, Philip Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family, and eight co-defendants were found guilty of racketeering. Last...
...billion bid by TWA. Carl Icahn, the corporate raider who became TWA chairman last year, may envision a TWA-USAir- Piedmont-PSA aggregation that would become the third largest airline, with 16% of the market. Icahn, who controls 15% of USAir's stock, suffered at least a temporary setback last week when a federal judge barred him from buying additional shares...