Word: beset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mitterrand also responded to rumors that he was suffering from a mysterious illness. Confirming that he had undergone a series of unspecified tests, he explained that he has been beset by back and leg pains, that he now "felt better" and that a full report on his health would be published this week...
...troubled states in the industrial heartland of the Midwest, Michigan is by far the hardest hit. Beset by nationwide recession, the migration of business to the Sunbelt and the auto industry's slump, Michigan had an unemployment rate of 12.7% in October, vs. a national average of 8%. Worse is to come. The University of Michigan's annual Conference on the Economic Outlook two weeks ago projected that the state's unemployment rate would climb...
...Arlington, Va., development that designs homes for unrelated buyers who double up to beat the high costs of homeownership. Similar developments are cropping up in Phoenix, Denver, Houston and Montgomery County, Md. The sharing is usually done by two young singles, but friendly couples and unrelated senior citizens beset by loneliness, as well as inflation, are also doubling up. The obvious cause of the trend is the decade-long escalation of housing costs and mortgage interest rates. At present, the average-priced new home sold in the U.S. costs $67,100 and has a 17.5% mortgage...
Egypt's problems, though, defy easy solution. The per capita income is a meager $469 per year. Its middle class is beset by an acute lack of affordable housing. Industry is virtually stagnant, and productive foreign investment is anemic. The country now imports half of its food. Says Abdel Razak Abdel-Meguid, the American-educated Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs: "Because of our favorable balance of payment statistics, the economy looks good on the outside. But inside it needs a lot of work...
...obstacles facing Egypt may thwart good intentions and a tough executive. The economy will be badly hit because receipts from oil exports, which provided $2.5 billion in foreign currency last year, are tumbling along with the fall-off in world crude prices. Egypt is also beset by a ticking demographic time bomb...