Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also beset by internal politics and bickering. One prominent securities analyst denounces the Big Board as a "Byzantine, conspiratorial Kafkaesque monster." The owners of the exchange, the 1,366 members who hold a seat entitling them to transact business on the exchange floor, have varied and often conflicting interests. When confronted by almost any proposal for change, the 33 governors divide into several factions, and the splits slow the pace of change that Exchange President Robert Haack is trying to bring about. Says Haack: "My job is to move these people into the 21st century...
Leftist Despair. In the midst of that field, Demirel is a man beset on all sides. The peasants, who constitute 70% of Turkey's 35 million people and the chief source of support for Demirel's Justice Party, are angered by his attempts to improve conditions for the middle class and the business community. The middle class wants him to place more emphasis on law and order so as to curb radical leftists. The minority leftists, who despair of ever gaining any sort of power through parliamentary means, advocate disruption as the only way to be heard...
...Beset by financial problems, the Iroquois is leasing its home at 74 Mt. Auburn St. to Sanctuary, an independent organization committed to helping street people. Funded by the Massachusetts Council of Churches and other organizations, Sanctuary will turn the previously exclusive club into a youth hostel for the summer months. The hostel will open as early as early as Tuesday or Wednesday of next week...
A.FRED HITCHCOCK once imagined a small California town abruptly and unaccountably beset by flocks of homicidal birds. In Pinole, a suburban hamlet in the hills 14 miles north of San Francisco, the idea might not seem entirely fantastic. Each summer for the past three years, an almost biblical plague of rattlesnakes has descended on the town...
...sorry to speak so somberly and critically on this occasion, but I feel I must. Your years at Harvard have been among the most tormented that have ever beset institutions of higher learning in this country. The effect of these years on each of you is something which only you can assess. Probably it will become clear with the passing of time. But troubled as the years have been I cannot believe- at least I do not want to believe- the effect will prove to have been wholly negative...