Word: bedeviler
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CONSIDER THE parallel problems of faith which bedevil both Christians and Freudians. The two groups subscribe to systems of thought which account for the origin, present behavior, and likely end of all humanity. Both rely for guidance on assertive, highly-trained, and often pessimistic experts. The substantive teachings of both systems are found in a series of books allegedly linked by a single author and a single author and a single point of view. Those outside are discouraged from converting by evident discrepancies between theory and practice...
...need to push up the debt ceiling raises once again some perplexing questions that still bedevil economists and have even split members of the Reagan Administration: Will the deficit shrink or rise even further out of sight? How should it be attacked? What impact does the burgeoning national debt have on the economy? Do deficits, in fact, really matter...
...views demonstrate, the triumph of stagecraft lies in the change from perception affecting reality to perception being reality. The only question now is why the Potemkin plan should be limited to slum housing when it could just as well be applied to all kinds of problems that bedevil officialdom...
...psychological pandemonium and so thoroughly destroyed social as well as financial confidence that it still stands as the classic inflation of modern times. As such it remains a nightmarish symbol of a problem that has become perhaps the most persistent one haunting modern economies. Though the chronic inflations that bedevil the industrial West have never spiraled so totally out of control, the German mega-inflation nonetheless serves as a constant warning...
...harbor. In the chair was Councilor Terry Peck, 45, an earnest, stocky plumber and former police chief who dutifully jotted notes on the proceedings. But the residents of the tiny capital (pop. 1,050) of the Falkland Islands were not getting together simply to discuss the local issues that bedevil most small communities. One man asked when the town gym, which is now occupied by British soldiers, would be open to the public again. Another grumbled about the military trucks that have been tearing up streets. As if to underscore the new realities of life in the Falklands, a British...