Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that is about to change. Government economists calculate that every day off represents a loss of about $475 million in national production. That is intolerable in an economy beset by a 17% inflation rate, about 7% unemployment and a huge balance of payments deficit. So, when he announced a new austerity program recently, Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti included in it a measure to skip two civil and five religious holidays (among them: St. Joseph's Day on March 19, Republic Day on June 2, St. Peter and St. Paul Day on June 29) when they occur next year. Five...
Since the opening, the bank has run up an operating deficit of $400,000. That is not unusual for a new bank of First Women's small size (capital: less than $4 million). But the bank has also been beset by management problems that officers are reluctant to discuss publicly. Employees grumble that the troubles start with frequent policy disputes that divide the 12-member board of directors, which is headed by a Manhattan lawyer, Evelyn Lehman, and includes four men. Some directors got into the venture for idealistic reasons but soon discovered that the job of guiding...
TANZANIA. Pop. 15,600,000. Independent (from Britain) since 1961. One-party socialist regime; 25% Christian, 31% Moslem, the rest animist. Literacy: 20%. Per capita G.N.P.: $156. Exports: cotton, coffee, sisal, cloves. A primitive agricultural economy beset by zealous collectivization campaigns...
...after a lifetime's apprenticeship in obscurity, Jones has suddenly found himself beset by fame. "This has been a weird year," he says, and the coming year will be even weirder as he develops, willy-nilly, into the latest candidate for great American playwright...
Unfortunately, it is not rural America or small-town America that desperately needs friends, but our overcrowded, problem-beset cities...