Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irony is that, having suffered so serious a setback in its efforts to bring Hussein and the Palestinians to the conference table, the U.S. seems to be making progress at last in the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib has told the Israelis that he saw a letter in which Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam assured his Lebanese counterpart, Elie Salem, that "when the last Israeli leaves, the last Syrian will leave...
...Radcliffe sailors, winners of their previous four regattas, suffered a setback over the weekend in their attempt to reach the nationals...
...devastating 10-0 setback in the first 5 minutes was a shocking blow to the team. But the ruggers fought back to narrow the margin to 10-6 at the half. Twenty minutes later, the Crimson pulled ahead 12-10 and continued to dominate the game...
Farrell's first-inning slam was one of few Crimson bright spots in the nightcap, the batmen's first setback of the 1983 campaign. Harvard took the opener, 6-5, and finished the day with a 6-1 record, while UMass bolstered its mark to 4-11 with a 10-7 decision in the late game...
From the very beginning, the U.S. nuclear-power industry has suffered one setback after another. Electricity was produced from the atom for the first time in December 1951 at Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, a station near Arco, Idaho. Typically even for then, the switch was thrown several months behind schedule. Nonetheless the dream of the day was that nuclear-generated electricity was not far off and that when it arrived, it would be "too cheap to meter...