Word: beset
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Much of Western Europe has been seized by a fervor to expand higher education and to reform it along U.S. lines-interdisciplinary cooperation, more full professors, rotating departmental command. Italy's current five-year plan calls for a reorganization of universities, now beset with frequent strikes by students and teaching assistants. Many Europeans hope to emulate what a Common Market Eurocrat calls "the magic American mobility between campus, government and industry...
...lone dissent, Justice Harlan discounted the "trivial" influence of "this apparently Elizabethan-tongued bailiff." Far worse, warned Harlan, the Parker reversal may now "encourage convicted felons to intimidate, beset and harass' a discharged jury in an effort to establish possible grounds for a new trial." The decision, said Harlan, "may be thought by some to commit" federal courts holding habeas corpus hearings to interrogate every jury "upon the mere allegation that a prejudicial remark has reached the ears of one of its members." But any large-scale jail delivery is hardly likely. Lower courts are still free to decide...
...Beset by financial woes, California's pioneering Douglas Aircraft Co. last week was 1) negotiating with eight banks for a loan of about $100 million, some $56 million of which the company hopes to have underwritten by the Defense Department, 2) understood to be seeking $175 million more, for a total of $275 million in financing, and 3) taking evasive action from what appears to be a strong takeover effort by the McDonnell Co. of St. Louis...
...billion-a-year-budget, DOT (as it seems destined to be called) starts life as the fourth-largest department in the Government, bringing together 32 scattered federal agencies, from the Bureau of Public Roads and the Federal Aviation Agency to the Alaska Railroad and the Great Lakes Pilotage Administration. Beset by myriad pressures, Congress stripped the twelfth Cabinet-level department of many logical functions, including control of the heavily subsidized maritime industry and of route-regulating powers. Still, DOT is a first healthy step toward substituting coherent plans for the decades-old tangle of inconsistent and obsolete rules that govern...
Inevitably, after nearly eight years in office. Governor Brown is saddled with the responsibility for all the crises, failures and frustrations that have beset the state during his tenure. Thousands of irritated, angry and frightened Californians are ready to blame Pat Brown personally for the rising crime rate, crowded schools. Watts, smog, even the drought that chronically plagues the southern half of the state...