Word: setbacks
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...This is a huge story. The Service Employees and the Teamsters want to leave the AFL-CIO. This is the biggest setback to American workers since the nation of India." --JAY LENO...
Roberts seemed on a fast track to judicial glory in 1992, when George H.W. Bush tapped him for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals at the age of 36. But he encountered his first setback when the bid died in the Senate with Bill Clinton's victory. Then George W. Bush tried in 2001 and finally succeeded in 2003. In the meantime, Roberts spent most of the '90s biding his time, getting rich as a corporate lawyer at Hogan & Hartson, one of Washington's largest firms, where he quickly emerged as the supreme commander of Supreme Court battles...
...More than that, it was a setback for a nation in dire need of a victory - a defeat that has driven France a little deeper into one of its periodic bouts of self-doubt. "I think I can say without chauvinism that we had the best bid," said Jean-Francois Legaret, mayor of the central 1st Arrondissement of Paris. "So since we didn't win, we have to ask ourselves about the weight of everything else that contributed to our loss. Part of it, surely, is the whole idea about us being 'Old Europe,' part...
...father's Pakistan People's Party. She is wary of its older leaders, and has replaced many of them with younger politicians. Charges Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 55, who was forced out of his party post and later formed an opposition group of his own: "Bhutto's retreat is a setback to the democratic forces, and she is the only person responsible...
...days later, the plan experienced another setback when United Liquors pulled out of talks to supply beer for the tailgate...