Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...represents the ideal of an economic Utopia. Sweden has the world's second highest per capita income; Denmark, Norway and Finland also rank high. All four are free of slums, hunger and extreme poverty. All enjoy steady economic growth combined with full employment. By contrast, the U.S. is beset by labor unrest, rising unemployment and slow growth. How do the Scandinavians do so much better...
...shape Washington's Latin America policy for years to come. The report was the product of a 20-nation journey made by the New York Governor last summer to help the new Nixon Administration reassess and reinvigorate a shaky Latin American policy. Rockefeller's survey trip was beset by anti-American demonstrations and violence. Indeed, some Latin Americans complained that the effort was at best ill-timed, at worst altogether useless...
...putting heavy pressures on governments throughout the hemisphere, and that everywhere "aspirations are outstripping resources and accomplishments." As a result, a fertile soil is being created for those who hope to exploit the southern continent's troubles. In the near future, the report predicts, Latin America will be beset by growing instability and an increased tendency to seek radical and authoritarian solutions. Rockefeller also warns that vociferous Latin American nationalism finds a tempting, natural target in the U.S., "since it looms so large in the lives of other nations." Against a backdrop of danger, the report stresses that...
...story centers on the erratic spiritual progress of Dame Philippa, a widow who enters Brede at age 42 after a successful career as a British government officer. At least half a dozen more biographies are told with quiet humor and occasionally painful intimacy. Moreover, the order is beset by a fiscal crisis, which is solved when a scapular cross cracks open revealing a ruby as big as the Ritz. Miss Godden's stylistic triumph is the placing of events within the cycles of the divine office and the liturgical year. She lived at England's Stanbrook Benedictine monastery...
Despite such glossy statistics, however, the observer from the East still finds something provincial about California culture; it is overeager, overly dutiful, and beset by a local boosterism mixed with inferiority feelings. In this area, as in many others, Californians are victims of what Sociologist David Riesman calls "masochistic narcissism?the idea that you are either the greatest or the worst...