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Everybody duly notes all the overseas financial setbacks.
Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
The Jerusalem Post noted that, despite reports of Russian military setbacks in Chechnya, Yeltsin said that Russia "will finish with the [Chechen] terrorists within a month."
Sponging, another vitally important industry at the end of the 19th century, also had setbacks.
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.