Word: beset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he was tapped almost two years ago to become president of NBC News, a position he had held from 1968 to 1973, Reuven Frank faced a staff beset by internal tensions and disarray. "They turned to me because I was an oldtimer who could, it was hoped, whip things back into shape," he recalls. That mission accomplished, the self-effacing veteran newsman told NBC Chairman Grant Tinker that he wanted to return to what he loves most and does best: producing news shows. His wish was granted on his 63rd birthday last week. Aside from the fact that...
...doubt this will be a very difficult task, one beset with the danger of making Israel the scapegoat for all the world's ills. Yet the task must be done, courageously and carefully. Thank to Errol Louis for leading the way. Robert A. Watts...
...case of Guatemala illustrates perfectly what befalls a country when its own policies oppose U.S. interests. In 1950, the State Department, beset with Cold War fever, grew frightened at the presence of a small number of Communists in the liberal coalition of popularly elected president, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. After Arbenz under took a program of land reform in a country where two percent of the population owned close to 75 percent of the land, U.S. officials said they sniffed Communist influence. The Guatemalan government's subsequent confiscation of uncultivated land owned by United Fruit Company prompted the U.S. to begin...
Many graduate schools of education in research universities in the United States have been beset in recent years by perplexing problems of identity. Some have not been sure why they existed, or what they were supposed to be teaching, or on what subjects they should do research, or to what forms of employment their students would go. As their analytical capacities to understand the educational enterprise have grown, their options for programmatic activities have also increased...
...George Sibbald's play Brothers, the McMillan family artery has been badly ruptured, and the threat of an irreparable clot is imminent. Beset by internal divisiveness, the McMillans quarrel and argue incessantly; the entire second act is an unbroken family battle. Superficially, Brothers seems little more than a soap-opera amalgamation of labor unrest, family feuds, and terminal illness, but fine writing and acting elevate it beyond the level of daytime serial...