Word: beset
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Colorado's Peter Dominick, who thought it "absolute nonsense" to double funds for a program that "is so beset from the beginning to the end with problems," proposed an amendment to whack $553 million off the bill. Michigan's Pat McNamara, the bill's floor manager, argued that O.E.O. "is a new agency, in operation less than a year, designed to meet a gigantic problem−that of reducing poverty in the United States. To expect that there would not be problems in administration would be unreasonable." Dominick's amendment failed, 51 to 40. An amendment...
...Despite federal subsidies of nearly $400 million a year, the U.S. merchant fleet is declining-from 1,212 ships in 1949 to 910 at present-and its share of U.S. foreign trade has fallen from 23.5% to 8.5% in the past decade. As for the passenger companies, they are beset by plentiful complaints about poor service at sea. Of the six U.S. passenger lines, none is showing a profit. Says an executive of one of the biggest lines: "The traveling public uses American ships only as a last resort...
Unclosed Eyes. Instead, Nasser reminded his listeners of the disastrous Arab summit meeting (TIME, June 4), which failed to reach agreement on a single agenda item. "We must face facts today and not close our eyes," Nasser declared. "Today each Arab state is afraid of the others. We are beset by suspicions, contradictions and distrust." This was confession enough, but the bombshell was still to come. Since the Arab states were not strong enough militarily to defend their planned diversion of the headwaters of the Jordan River, declared Nasser, "then I say: let us postpone the diversion. We must provide...
...Review of Books, said, "In the end, neither a sharper definition of the American essence nor a new illumination of our historical past, is achieved...One regrets that a scholar of professor Jones stature and erudition should have written a case book illustrating the peculiar temptations and dangers that beset the modern cultural historian, but it appears to me that...
Outside his orbiting capsule in his own space suit, an astronaut will be a man beset by problems. A brief pulse of power from a backpack rocket will start him moving in any direction he desires, but it will take another carefully calculated pulse to stop him, still others to move him up, down, backward or into a turn. How will he handle the continuous need to control his versatile little rocket without letting that one job keep him too busy for other useful work...