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Even if the GOP somehow loses seats in both houses, it can ignore its relative setbacks and reassert its absolute supremacy.
And yet, there were also appalling setbacks: NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated.
Despite some early setbacks, the Communist armies became an overwhelming force.
The papers note that the adverse ruling is the latest in a string of setbacks for Starr: his failed attempt to eradicate the postmortem lawyer-client privilege, the death of cooperating witness James McDougal, the release from jail of the non-cooperating Susan McDougal, and his failure thus far to delve into communications between Clinton and his government-supplied lawyers or into the observations made of Clinton by his Secret Service detail.
However, similar setbacks in reepitheliallization were not observed in small wounds (6 mm).