Word: beset
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There is much evidence to support Reagan's and Shultz's claims. The Soviet Union is beset by economic and demographic troubles at home, as well as reversals and quagmires abroad. Still, the truth hurts--all the more so when it comes from the West. A Soviet official traveling with Politburo Member Vladimir Shcherbitsky during his visit to the U.S. two weeks ago commented privately that American "boasts and taunts" about the correlation of forces have been "the single most offensive and provocative lie of propaganda that we have had to put up with these past few years...
...unkind things about ITT? The $14.2 billion conglomerate wants desperately to know what schemers are staging a campaign to sell the company, or break it up. No one would have listened to such talk during the telecommunications firm's glory days in the 1960s and 1970s. But now, beset by stagnating profits, ITT's management is trying to stamp out those ideas before they become self-fulfilling...
Reagan's fine-tuned political machine was on display last week in Medford, Ore. To watch it closely was to see what had confounded and beset Walter Mondale for months. As the President mesmerized the crowd of 5,000, Darman closely followed a text labeled "core speech." He noted every line that drew applause with an asterisk and every line that drew a laugh with the notation "HA." Happy faces glowed in the pink sunset. About the only tense listener was Dale Schuman, owner of the Magic Man costume and fun shop, whose job it was to release...
...more negative feeling concerning START, but he also negates much of his harange against U.S. conduct at the INF talks with his very first sentence in Part Two "White INF was largely an inherited dilemma for the Reagan Administration, its conduct of START--the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks--was beset by problems much more of its own making...
...Beset by a constant barrage of disclosures about horrific waste, the Pentagon is struggling to get a tighter control over spending practices. Last week the Defense Department's inspector general, Joseph Sherick, pointed out that over the past three years his office had conducted 59,000 internal audits, potentially saving the Government $6.1 billion. Many of the most blatant examples of waste and cost overruns cited by the press and Congress, Sherick insisted, had actually been ferreted out by his team of 19,000 auditors...