Word: setbacks
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...team suffered a 87-77 setback to crosstown rival Northeastern to fall to 1-10 on the season. Two months later, thanks to nine straight wins in Ivy League play, the Crimson is one victory away from a definite berth in the NCAA Tournament...
...protest stemmed from the idea that MIT denied him tenure because he is black and they are racist. Yet, a few days ago, in a major setback to the struggle against racism, Sherley started eating again, after only 12 days and a weight loss of 20 pounds...
...present at the scene, also found that the bus’ brakes were defective. According to Joe Mokrisky, a Fung Wah consultant on transportation safety, other bus carriers had already shut down Boston-New York service, calling into question the decision to forge ahead. Fung Wah suffered a major setback in August of 2005, when one of its carriers burst into flames, with fleeing passengers creating a publicity nightmare. The past six months have been unkind to Fung Wah, featuring a rollover in September that injured over 30 passengers, a wheel malfunction in January, as well as the most recent...
...blew out Dartmouth 8-1 in the first round of the tournament before facing the second-seeded Penn in the semifinals. One week ago, an undefeated Harvard team headed to Philadelphia ranked No. 3 in the country, only to suffer its first loss on the season, a 6-3 setback at the hands of the Quakers. This week, the team had revenge on its mind...
Added to the injury of yet another setback in what has become the Ivy League’s most hostile environment, the Crimson (10-14, 3-7 Ivy) had to endure the insult of the Ivy League championship trophy being presented at halftime to Yale’s football team, which split the league title with Princeton. The crowd roared when Bulldogs football coach Jack Siedlecki announced that the real reason the team was there was to watch Yale beat Harvard again—an allusion to his squad’s 34-13 win in Cambridge this past November?...