Word: setbacks
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...Crimson suffered its lone setback during spring break at the hands of the UC Baptist Lancers...
...months ago, Harvard’s bid to restore stability to HMC suffered a setback when Meyer’s predecessor Mohamed A. El-Erian announced plans to return to lead a private investment company after a brief 22-month tenure...
...latest setback to the preparations has been a meningitis outbreak among construction workers at the site of the games village: news reports in early March said that nine patients had been treated for the potentially deadly and contagious disease in 10 days. While no deaths were reported, the Hindustan Times reported poor hygiene conditions on the site, which is not altogether surprising given that the Yamuna, on whose eastern bank the site is located, is one ofthe most polluted rivers in the world...
...Carroll, 49, who has been developing and fitting artificial limbs for more than 25 years, the IAAF's decision was not so much a setback as a welcome reminder of how far prosthetics technology has come. Vice president of prosthetics for Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics in Maryland, Carroll has become a go-to guy for disabled athletes who want to take artificial limbs to the extreme not only in competition but also in sports like ice-climbing, rock-climbing and skiing. He has created everything from prosthetic legs that function as crampons to feet that lock directly into ski bindings...
...with Fillon and other leading conservatives adamant their municipal setback would not affect the mandate for sweeping reform got from voters just 10 months ago, some pundits accused the right of being intentionally autistic in ignoring Sunday's outcome. "Monsieur le Président, someone has to inform you: you lost these municipal elections, and badly," wrote Laurent Joffrin, editor-in-chief of the leftist daily Libération in his Monday editorial. "With a Soviet-grade excess of hypocrisy, your accomplices, spokespeople, and your Prime Minister have maintained the contrary, [but] this first vote held just 10 months after...