Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gory footage of Africa Addio is clearly genuine, and it is hard to deny the film's message: that much of the Dark Continent today is beset by violence and turmoil. But with a careful selection of film clips, an adroit director could make most parts of the world seem in the grip of terror-many far more so than Africa. Despite its lofty pretensions, the film has all too obviously been made for its shock value alone. As such, it is genuinely shocking. It is the value that is questionable...
...needed. Under Gross, who became chairman on the death of his brother Robert in 1961, Lockheed has overcome its troubles of the 1950s, when it was beset by costly flops on a couple of aircraft (Saturn and Constitution) and crashes on others, notably the Electra. As the Defense Department's biggest single contractor five years running, Lockheed has seen its profits increase to more than $51 million (on sales of over $2 billion) last year v. $37,200,000 in 1962. Though disappointed over losing the SST competition to Boeing, the company expects continuing defense demands, diversification into such...
...General Motors had its second best year in history, even though its 1966 sales fell 6.8% behind 1965's record. Dollar sales eased only 2.4%, but profits, beset by higher costs, slumped 16% to $1.8 billion. Ford, too, felt the chill: profits down 12% to $621 million despite record sales. Looking ahead, G.M.'s board gave 1967 a vote of confidence last week, maintained the company's 85? quarterly stock dividend...
...colleagues had studied scores of patients in painstaking detail, they concluded: "The experience and behavior that are labeled schizophrenic are a special sort of strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable position. He cannot make a move, or make no move, without being beset by contradictory pressures both internally, from himself, and externally, from those around him. He is in a position of checkmate." Before schizophrenia can be better understood and its treatment improved, psychiatry itself must undergo a deep change, Dr. Laing believes. He insists that a mental hospital is no place to treat...
...recently as 1962, Ohio qualified as one of the less industrious of the nation's industrial states. Beset by an $83 million budget deficit, a dearth of new business, and a 25% drop in employment during the previous six years, Ohio set out to do something about its sluggish economy. Since then, no other state has wooed industry with quite as much ardor-or success. Last year Ohio lured an estimated $2.1 billion in new industrial investment, the best such performance ever by any state...