Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since most of that money is redistributed outside the center to journals it will not cause a major financial setback, Goldman said...
...MONTH AGO, however, the organizing drive suffered a setback. This time, though, Harvard had nothing do do with...
...crisis was a bruising political setback for Mitterrand. And Hernu was a special loss. The 62-year-old former magistrate is a longtime confidant of the President's. Hernu almost single-handedly persuaded the Socialist Party in 1976 to support the French nuclear force de frappe, which it had officially opposed for six years. The Defense Minister personified the promilitary, antipacifist and Western-oriented thinking of the Mitterrand regime. He was also highly popular with France's armed forces. One opposition leader admitted that Hernu was "the only Socialist minister who should be kept in a new administration...
...Another setback for the government came in February with the collapse of the Tenth Credit Cooperative, a major Taiwan savings and loan institution, and the Cathay Investment & Trust Co., linchpin of the mighty Cathay group (estimated 1984 assets: $2.5 billion). The cooperative's chairman, Tsai Chen-chou, had funneled more than $190 million from Tenth Credit to fund his own shaky business schemes. Many citizens feel that members of the ruling Kuomintang (K.M.T.) knew of the scandal but looked the other way. Indeed, Tsai and his half brother Tsai Chen-nan, chairman of the Cathay Investment & Trust Co., had been...
Longowal's death was seen as a major setback to the impressive start that had been made in mending relations between the Sikh community and the central government, which had been severely strained even before the army assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar last year. In the month since the settlement was signed, Punjab had been unusually quiet, giving Gandhi the confidence to announce elections for Sept. 22. After Longowal's death, Gandhi changed the date to Sept. 25 to allow for the mourning period. The elections will be the first in five years and will end nearly...