Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Musgrove of Chicago. Four years ago, he got an SBA loan to open the city's only photographic lab owned by a black. Today he is trapped between an inadequate cash flow and the desire to expand. He is working mostly to pay off the SBA. Beset by similar problems, as well as by undercapitalization and bad management, many other blacks simply close their doors. A recent survey in Chicago showed that 80% of the black-owned firms that were founded in 1972 folded by the end of the year...
STILL, in a University beset with political problems, few people, if any, have charged that the system contains any political bias. Radicals like Herbert I. Gintis say that radical theses receive high honors. But he explained that the system is biased toward certain forms of academic discipline. An accepted mode of academic work usually receives some form of magna, while an experimental thesis runs the risk of offending its reader...
Throughout his multiple quests, McDowell encounters simplistic over-dramatizations of the evil which besets our society. The viewer encounters many of the standard film cliches which normally beset directors far below Anderson's level. The picaresque style which Anderson adopts has already been so exhausted in both film and literature as to leave little room for originality. And the major fresh idea -- generalizing the actor's experience -- smells so strong that it might as well be stale...
...under way in Fall 1969. The program was beset with serious problems from the very beginning. First, teachers and students soon developed two, very different definitions of public clinical psychology. Some stuck to White's goal of learning to provide mental health care in traditional clinical settings. Others felt that this sort of work just patched up the more seriously damaged psychological victims of institutions throughout society which failed to meet human needs. The concerns of this wing of CP3 went beyond just schools and hospitals to include the effects of all kinds of institutions on individuals: police departments, families...
...administration claims that its Cambodian acts are meant to guarantee the implementation of the January peace agreements, which it says are beset by subversion from the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front. Henry A. Kissinger '50 is in Paris this week, purportedly to strengthen the agreements through new negotiations with the North Vietnamese...