Word: beset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beset by megabudgets and minimoguls, the movie industry suffers a crisis of conscience...
Brezhnev, according to some analysts, might have been looking at Poland last week with one eye on workers in the Soviet Union. The Soviets have paid for their vast military establishment by shortchanging their civilian economy. Now, the U.S.S.R. is beset by rising costs and a wasteful industrial system. To achieve new growth, it must somehow make better use of what it has. Not surprisingly, Brezhnev devoted two-thirds of his keynote speech to domestic affairs, stressing higher industrial and agricultural productivity and less waste. Speaking later in the week, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov spelled out the guidelines...
...military aid to the centrist regime. One must be realistic: either a right-wing or a left-wing take-over will bring repression, massive blood-letting, and another discarded cause on the rubbish-heap of liberal infatuations. The only pro-democratic force in El Salvador is the moderate regime. Beset on both sides, it needs, and deserves, out support...
...federal wing in another. One flaw of the usual federal-state debate is that participants often overlook the ad hoc evolution of the U.S. scheme of governance; they imagine that governmental structures take their shape more from the niceties of theory than from the proddings of a society beset with messy problems. As former Governor Orville Free man of Minnesota once said: "The literature of federal-state relationships is replete with myths that need to be demolished...
What was most worrisome to both national labor organizers and government officials was the continued presence of the 55 Soviet divisions that remain poised within striking distance of Poland. The Soviets, obviously, were still watching. Poland, said the Soviet journal Kommunist last week, was beset "by chaos in the national economy, by the irresponsible use of strikes and by cases of open anti-socialist activity by counterrevolutionary groups." Such statements clearly suggested that the threat of Soviet intervention was still very real, and that renewed labor disputes and strikes, demonstrating the continued inability of the government and the unions...