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The NYT lead on the fast track fizzle calls it the most severe legislative setback for Clinton since his national health care plan died, and the paper reports that many on Capitol Hill are saying that it marks the beginning of Clinton's lame-duck status.
The NYT says that Gore outpolled Bill Bradley 63 percent to 35 percent, adding that this result was a "setback" for Bradley, "who had campaigned aggressively."
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.
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.
That's a setback for the mothers, then the mothers are going to be father and mother, and that's a strain.