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The LAT front-page McDougal piece says his death could be a "setback."
The theory that male homosexuality is genetic suffered a setback . A previous study had found a specific genetic pattern among gay men, but a new study does not find the same pattern.
It said Clinton's credibility abroad has suffered a very serious setback, not only because of the Senate decision but also because of "the Pakistani military ignoring US advice on restoring the democratic process in their country."
Several Democratic senators, assisted by the media, depicted the House prosecutors' failure to win a majority vote in the Senate as a disgraceful setback for the GOP.
While assuring other nations that the vote signified no change in America's commitment to nonproliferation, he told Americans that arms control had suffered a disastrous setback and that the United States was withdrawing from the world.