Word: beset
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Mulroney candidly acknowledges his problems. Recalling the string of scandals that beset him last September, he said recently, "If I had my druthers, I'd outlaw Septembers in the future." But the Prime Minister, who noted in a year-end interview that more than 400,000 new jobs have been created in Canada since he took office, has also complained that many of his government's accomplishments have been ignored. "It's much easier for the media to talk about tainted tuna than it is about job creation," he said...
...proposed changes would make mergers less difficult for rivals in industries beset by imports, like steel and apparel. Among other reforms, they would ease penalties in antitrust suits brought by one company against another and would make it harder for courts to block a merger on grounds that the combined firm might eventually become a monopoly...
...articulate and urbane author, now 52, long ago caught up in style with the blue bloods he admired in his youth. But he has often been beset by doubt. For years after the flop of his Cambridge Footlights revue, he belittled the theater as an art form. His turn to the stage, abandoning a novel halfway through, was an act of desperation. "I lost faith in my own voice, and I liked the stage because the characters do all the talking for you." The shift brought criticism: "I was very conscious of the disapproval of friends and reviewers who felt...
...make matters worse, for the past seven years Mozambique (pop. 14 million) has been beset by drought and widespread starvation. In 1983, an estimated one-third of Mozambique's population did not have enough to eat. As many as 100,000 died. The situation has stabilized, but Mozambique remains one of the largest food-aid recipients in Africa. "People are not dying so much anymore," says a CARE worker in Maputo. "But they are fleeing. They are barefoot and wandering...
...us there are no second acts in American lives. Fortunately, TV is not life. And ever since Ozzy Osbourne's and Jessica Simpson's comebacks, TV has been doling out second and third acts like Halloween candy. Eccentric Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett, p.r. queen Lizzie Grubman and gossip-beset Britney Spears have done reality shows. Kirstie Alley responded to being the butt--so to speak--of tabloid fat jokes on Showtime's sitcom Fat Actress. This summer scandal magnets Tommy Lee and Bobby Brown remind us who they are on NBC and Bravo, while next fall Martha Stewart further...