Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation is somewhat more complicated. The dissidents have indeed become a significant issue between Moscow and Washington, at the very moment that both sides are trying to get arms-control efforts back on the track. But the Russians are also beset by other serious problems at home and abroad. The Soviet and East European economies are strained, Soviet influence in the Middle East continues to decline, and the "victory" of pro-Russian forces in Angola is proving a mixed blessing, because it has led to a new American concern about Soviet expansionism. Besides, a specter is haunting Europe-the specter...
American Motors Corp., smallest of the four U.S. automakers, has always been an up-and-down company, but lately it has hit a longer-than-usual losing streak. Beset by both bad luck and bad judgment, A.M.C. lost $73.8 million in its past two fiscal years. Its own accountants warned that the company's ability to stay in business depended partly on whether it could repay or extend bank loans that fell due in early 1977. By the time Chairman Roy Chapin Jr. faced stockholders at the annual meeting last week, that crisis had passed. Chapin told the group...
...Beset by some of the worst weather in decades, winter racing in New York would be a sickly season indeed were it not for a new twist: the emergence of Steve Cauthen. An apprentice jockey since his 16th birthday last May, Cauthen has won 276 races and more than $1.6 million in purses since riding his first professional mount. That nag, King of Swat, was a 136-to-l long shot, and finished as the odds had him-dead last -but Cauthen has been winning ever since. He stands a good chance this year of building the most successful season...
...Seymour Chwast. 72 pages. Harmony Books/Crown. $10.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback. A fetching concatenation of feline portraits done by celebrated painters, illustrators and cartoonists from Watteau, Manet, Renoir and Picasso to Andrew Wyeth, from Tenniel to Thurber, from Chessie in the C & O berth to Krazy Kat beset by Ignatz Mouse. The text is too kittenish, even for ailurophiles, but the pictures are, well, magnificat...
...administration's decision not to push for the punishment of the students was yet another example of the type of behavior that has led to fitful progress on the various problems that have beset the university during the past several months. Faculty and student outcry against the administration's lethargy in settling the strike, and its insistence on making an example of the arrested students, had intensified as the month of October dragged on, with no resolution of the conflict in sight...