Word: beset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...door. Weizman denied any such intention, but he told TIME last week that he would not be unhappy to see Begin's government collapse. In fact, the timing of his departure could hardly have been calculated to do more damage to Begin's grip on power. Beset by an annual inflation rate of 122%, blamed by the Egyptians for the deadlock in the Palestinian autonomy negotiations, and burdened by incessant squabbling within his fractious Cabinet coalition, Begin's government had grown precariously weak...
...Black student familiar with some of the problems which beset Black students here on campus, I will communicate and express my concerns to assist in removing some of Salveit's misunderstandings. Since March 1979 over 31 Black Harvard University students have been the victims of racial harrassment perpetuated by whites in the greater Boston area: this includes one Black medical school student who was beaten unconscious and nearly lost his eyesight on the track by Soldiers Field Park. As of April 1979 there were only 16 Black teaching personnel of a total 851 (less than 2%) within the Harvard University...
...Brokaw's pleasant rasp filled the room. A profound sense of food notstalgia beset him. He was a glass of apple juice. Jane Pauley began to cloy, and abruptly disappeared. Nothing to read. He would kill the nurse if she ever again opened the blinds and woke him and took his blood...
Such stories of not being recruited abound among successful women athletes, including two-year squash captain and varsity heavyweight stroke Jennifer Stone '80, and organization governing women's collegiate athletics, the AIAW, has designed its tight regulations with the intention of eluding the recruiting excesses that have beset men's sports under the auspices of the NCAA. And while women's coaches concede that loopholes exist, Stoeckel says only time will reveal whether women's athletics avoid the pitfalls prevalent among big-time recruitment...
...School's library, Bok ordered coffee and doughnuts and thanked the students for "coming to show your concern." Bok's colleagues from his Law School days, including James Vorenberg, professor of Law, clearly remember the "very cool, moderate role" the young dean played in calming a school beset by its share of the heat...