Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be premature to judge the resettlement program a failure. The director of the Interagency Task Force, Julia Vadala Taft, concedes that the program has been beset by problems but is still "pleased at the progress that has been made so far." The vast majority of placements have been successful, she argues, while the small number of "sponsor-refugee mismatches" is no more than should be expected in a program "of this size and complexity...
...other countries, a government would automatically have called out its army to put down the kind of civil unrest that beset Lebanon in the past fortnight. But Lebanon's 16,000-man armed forces, like the nation itself, are a special case. Since the high command is predominantly Christian, much of the Moslem population would have resented the army's presence-and the soldiers might have split along religious lines. So the government prudently allowed the troops to remain in barracks...
Slender Majority. Whitlam's firing of Cairns compounds the difficulties of the Labor Party, beset by economic problems and falling popularity. Only two weeks ago, it lost a by-election for a seat in Tasmania that it had held for 21 years. As a result, Whitlam's slender majority in the lower house has been reduced to three. Many political observers are predicting the financial scandal may well be the "extraordinary circumstances" that opposition Liberal and Country parties Leader Malcolm Fraser said he would need to take the country to the polls later this year...
...capitalist declaration of independence from the remaining shackles of feudalism and helped launch an economic revolution that has produced far more wealth than man had amassed in all previous history. Yet today the heirs of that revolution cannot celebrate in triumph. As capitalism approaches its bicentennial, it is beset by crisis. Increasingly, its supporters as well as its critics ask: Can capitalism survive...
Indeed, as the U.N.-sponsored two-week-long conference neared its final days, the problems that beset women seemed all but irresolvable in the face of national conflicts. Soviet and Chinese delegates berated each other for sabotaging the war on imperialism. Other speakers denounced colonialism, apartheid and multinational corporations. Finally, Elizabeth Reid, Australia's outspoken chief delegate, objected: "The conference is treating women as irrelevant. We have not talked about women as such...