Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...build a coalition of support; Carter's will be to hold on to his. The Georgian will attack Ford for "indecisiveness," claiming that he would be not only a better manager but a more aggressive one. When a Senate committee charged last week that the Medicaid program was beset by multibillion-dollar fraud and inefficiency, Carter wondered where the President had been while the mess was brewing: "Sitting in the White House, perhaps,timid, fearful, afraid to lead, afraid to manage...
...image and developed into one of the world's most respected financial statesmen. He was a vigorous force in expanding the bank's retail and commercial business. But now his name seems to magnify the Chase's problems. A Rockefeller somehow should not be beset with the financial problems that affect ordinary bankers. Yet David Rockefeller is at least partly to blame for the bank's problems. Since the bank has historically been known as the Rockefellers', David was destined for the top job ever since he joined the bank's foreign department...
...which date back to 1896, has the performance of a gymnast been judged perfect. But within five days last week Comaneci earned the 10.00 mark seven times. Yet never before have the Olympics seemed less perfect. Plagued first by the bitter international dispute over the participation of Taiwan, then beset by the withdrawal of African and Arab countries, the Montreal Olympics have seen what could prove to be irreparable damage (see box) to the notion that nations that play together stay together...
...this context a stunning banality−tips Tryon's hand. He is belaboring a tradition that goes back at least as far as Boccaccio and John Lydgate's 15th century monstrosity The Fall of Princes−26,000 lines of bad poetry on the miseries that beset rulers. Something in human nature cannot resist being told that the richest, most powerful and most beautiful are also the most miserable. The plain fact that this is often not true has never weakened the formula's appeal, and Tryon plays it for whatever it is worth. No facet...
False Charges. The murders of these prominent exiles are dramatic evidence that the political violence that has beset Argentina for six years has not stopped under the generals; at least 350 people have died since they took over. Most observers agree that the guerrillas have been hit hard by the security forces, but they can still hit back. Last week guerrillas kidnaped Colonel Juan Alberto Pita, a friend of President Jorge Rafael Videla and the recently appointed government referee in the powerful General Confederation of Labor...