Word: beset
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...Nicholas II. The Soviet army of today is still isolated, though not much more so than armies of other major powers. Perhaps the greatest difference is that it enjoys far higher prestige and power within its country than its Western counterparts do in theirs. Though bureaucracy and inertia beset much of Soviet society, the highly trained military is less inefficient than many other sectors of Soviet life...
Changing an Image. More than its competitors, G.M. is beset by another difficulty-burnishing its image. Critics tend to find it a distant, impersonal corporation, where the glass doors leading to the executive suites are locked. "I think the biggest problem facing us as a corporation is communications," Chairman Roche told TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Peter Vanderwicken in an interview last week. The debate over lead-free gasoline to reduce pollution (TIME, Feb. 23) is a case in point. Within the industry, G.M.'s Ed Cole is commonly credited with being first to urge the oil companies last winter...
...Dickey finds in the wilderness and within himself. During the run down the river, all four men nearly drown in the rapids. Lewis Medlock breaks a leg in a spill from a canoe. The mutual-fund salesman is raped in an act of sodomy by two mountain people who beset the city slickers. Gentry tumbles from a cliff with the body of a mountain man whom he shot with a bow and arrow while defending himself. The final score: two mountain folk dead (by arrow shot), one canoer dead (from ambush rifle fire), three bodies secretly and horribly buried...
When Dean Louis Pollak of the Yale Law School announced last fall that he would resign to devote more time to teaching and family, possible successors eyed the job warily. At Yale, as at nearly every other top U.S. law school, black students and militant whites have beset the faculty with demands for liberalized admission standards, more student power and more "relevant" courses. The pressures for change at Yale, as elsewhere, weigh most heavily on the dean, a man traditionally selected more for his skills as a scholar and fundraiser than as a conciliator...
...overall increase in joblessness has hit blue-collar workers in durable-goods manufacturing, the major sinew of U.S. economic abundance. In just twelve months, the durable-goods jobless rate almost doubled-from a post-Korean War low of 2.5% to 4.7% last month. The troubled auto industry, beset by a winter of declining sales and layoffs of thousands of workers, accounted for one-third of the February rise in unemployment, Government statisticians said...