Word: setbacks
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While all this delicate jockeying was going on, Reagan suffered an arms control setback of a quite different sort at the hands of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-a wound that was, in a sense, self-inflicted. The committee refused to confirm Kenneth Adelman, 36, now the deputy permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, as head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, which supervises the U.S. negotiators. The committee of nine Republicans and eight Democrats had been expected narrowly to approve Adelman, sending the nomination to the floor. There the Administration expected to win confirmation after a stiff...
...year political elections traditionally give French voters a chance to show discontent with the government without risking national political upheaval. Giscard has hinted that the government should respond to a serious setback in the municipal elections by dissolving parliament and seeking a new national mandate. But the former President did not do that when his coalition was trounced in the 1977 municipal elections, and there is every reason to believe that Mitterrand will respect that precedent no matter how poorly the left does next month...
Agee's resignation seems an abrupt setback in what had been a fast-track career. A graduate of Harvard Business School, he was only 39 in 1977 when he reached the top at Bendix, a manufacturer of machine tools and auto and aerospace parts based near Detroit. At the time, Bendix stock was selling for less than $40 a share. Under the deal Agee negotiated, Allied paid $85 a share. But if Bendix shareholders were happy, the board was less than delighted with the publicity fallout from Agee's relationship with Mary Cunningham, a top Bendix vice president...
...delegates' actions last week were a dispiriting setback for an A.B.A. commission that has been working since 1977 to reshape the association's 14-year-old code of ethics. While the revisers probably will succeed in eliminating much of the confusion in the current code, which in many instances seems to offer two different standards of conduct, their further goal of heightening a lawyer's duty to the public is now out of reach. The rules approved in New Orleans are likely to be formally ratified by the A.B.A. in August, and will serve...
...growing support. But some German politicians fear that the U.S. government, at the invitation of the ruling conservative German party, may annouson a new, superficial peace proposal right before March 6 to drain support from opponents like the Greens. Such a move, if successful, would be a major setback for a fascinating political development--a party that has captured the imagination of millions and injected a needed bit of sanity into the nuclear debate...