Word: beset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offenders were quickly released, but their rebellious mood accurately reflected the deteriorating confidence of many Zimbabweans, both black and white, in the 18-month-old Mugabe government. After a euphoric year of independence, Zimbabwe is beset by a variety of serious economic and social problems. Says embattled Finance Minister Enos Nkala: "The leaders of the struggle never promised an instant Garden of Eden. The nation must choose the hard road...
Giamatti said last week that the Advocate article was "very selective" in quoting from his letter to Bush, which he said complained, in general, that the university had been "beset by a tide of federal regulations which burden us with paperwork and subject us to conflicting and...sometimes arbitrary demands...
...this comprehensive and entertaining study, Kansas Journalism Professor David Dary deflates the mythic machismo of the bunkhouse and the open range. His real cowpoke is hardly an existential drifter on the Plains. Rather, he is a common laborer beset by the pressures of a hard life and slim wages...
Israel is beset by devastating economic, political and military problems. Inflation is running at 120%; emigration still exceeds immigration. The country recently endured a fusillade of criticism over its bombing of civilian areas in Lebanon. Its leadership is deeply torn over how to come to terms with Israel's Arab neighbors. Yet these crucial matters scarcely figured in the negotiations between Begin and his partners: the National Religious Party, with six members of the Knesset; the ultraconservative Agudat Israel, with four; and the newly organized TAMI, with three. Last week the coalition released an agreement, a sort of party...
...enemy lines, more than tripled from $8.7 million to $28 million per unit. Many Congressmen fear that unless military outlays are controlled by some strictly enforced set of priorities, they will soar far beyond the projected $1.5 trillion. What if the defense bills fall due in an economy still beset by high unemployment and inflation? Then, says Georgia's Sam Nunn, a Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a vociferous advocate of a stronger defense, "it won't take the public any longer to sour on defense than on the Great Society." Similar worries have been set forth...