Word: beset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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POLITICS. This, everyone agrees, is the fundamental reason for the pullout. The Soviet leaders, beset by economic troubles at home, unable to prevent the deployment of U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe and still burning over Reagan's characterization of them as "the focus of evil in the modern world," are in an angry and frustrated mood. They will do nothing even passively that might conceivably boost Reagan's standing, but on the contrary will seize every opportunity to embarrass him in an election year...
...Beset by war and weariness, the ruling Sandinistas are struggling...
...months ago, Deng launched what may be his final attempt to put his own mark, and some irreversible spin, on the history of China. Frankly admitting that it was "currently beset with many serious problems," the Communist Party leadership announced a three-year plan to review the ideological credentials of its 40 million members. The drive is designed in effect to purge the party of around a million unregenerate leftists, the majority of them ill-educated Maoists who have been desperately clinging to power...
...next January by a 686-member electoral college. But according to the latest polls, 80% of Brazil's voters want a direct say in choosing their next leader. The public mood also reflects a lack of confidence in the government's ability to deal with an economy beset by severe underemployment and unemployment (40%), runaway inflation (230%) and the Third World's highest foreign debt ($96 billion...
...baseball, America's national pastime, is especially beset with franchise relocation. Washington, D.C., once famous for being "First in War, First in Peace, and Last in the American League," was last in attendance as well, and has been without its original team for 20 years as a result, ever since, management decided to reincarnate and seek larger profits as The Minnesota Twins Fittingly. Twins owner Calvin Griffith is now eager to move to Tamps. Yachtsman entrepreneur Ted Turner has turned the Atlanta Braves into a controversial, competitive, and dearly-loved local institution. But it was not so long ago that...