Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great Alaska pipeline appears to be jinxed. In its first month of operation, the $10 billion project has been beset by both mechanical breakdowns and an embarrassing dispute over what to do with the oil when it begins pouring out of the 800-mile line...
...belatedly makes his debut this week as Tom Courtenay's replacement in the hit show Otherwise Engaged. "I can't see why if I don't screw up I shouldn't be acceptable," Cavett predicts about his role as a snobbish British publisher beset by domestic crises. But he does have one worry: "I have a bad dream in which I go blank during a speech and try to pause for a commercial. Then I realize I can't." Come fall, Cavett will switch back to TV and a new, five-night-a-week talk...
...University police have been beset by labor problems in recent months. Last March David L. Gorski resigned after two years as chief of University police in the wake of Harvard Police Association protests against his proposed reorganization of the University force...
...compare that with today." In short, Luscomb in many ways reminds one of early American socialist leaders such as Eugene Debs (whom she voted for in 1920, the year she was first eligible to vote). In many ways she personifies both the morality and the organizational weakness that beset those early, turn-of-the-century American socialists advocating a theory of nonviolent parliamentary socialism. And today, while one may marvel at the perennial hope of the women it is harder to share her optimism. This is not to say that Luscomb is insincere. It is simply that her vision...
BRITAIN remains a problem child, beset by just about every possible economic ill: falling productivity, high inflation (15.1% in 1976), a dismally low growth rate (1.5% predicted for 1977), and a currency that is only a shadow of its former self. Still, Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan and his predecessor Harold Wilson have managed to pull the country out of even graver conditions, and the increasing flow of North Sea oil may yet rescue Britain from its present economic poorhouse...