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Already, Ghana has been beset by chaos. The military has imprisoned and murdered at will, using its weapons on "opponents" of the regime, or anyone who happens to personally offend the wrong military leader. Fines are imposed arbitrarily, and citizens who have refused to pay have mysteriously disappeared, their charred bodies showing up shortly after...
...speech, did play it in a lower register; but little he said could be called inconsistent with previous pronouncements. Indeed, the President has succeeded remarkably in projecting the image of the absolutely predictable man, firm to the point of adamancy, a hard, if amiable, Mount Rushmore head beset with frantic, cajoling advisers, crawling in the ears, tugging at the hair, cooing, shoving, grunting, pleading, praying for a budge. But budge he does rarely, and then most reluctantly. He changes positions, but never his mind...
...banks of the sluggish Zaïre River and little hope for the country that bears the river's name. Though its debts are small on an international scale-only $5.1 billion-Zaïre is a financial basket case, a country so broke, so mismanaged, so beset by the global recession and, ultimately, so corrupt that it should be a perfect warning to lenders. Since 1976, Zaïre's debt has been rescheduled at least five times; last year only an estimated $250 million of $946 million due in debt service was paid, and the chances...
...industrialized democracies of the world. More than 20% of the U.S.'s oil imports, 56% of Western Europe's and 68% of Japan's come from the gulf. That lifeline is acutely vulnerable to the disruptions of war, revolution and political turmoil. The region has been beset by all three. The conservative Arab states-Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman-face threats to their security at every point of the compass: a simmering, potentially explosive war between Iran and Iraq, armored Soviet divisions in Afghanistan, Soviet proxy forces in South Yemen...
What is so significant about Timely Writer's career is the style in which he repeatedly came back from injury and disappointment. Throughout every misfortune he demonstrated he was the same talented colt, with perhaps the greatest courage seen in any athlete so beset with ill fortune...