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...superpowers (1974): The U.S. and the Soviet Union are vainly seeking world hegemony. The two superpowers are the biggest exploiters and oppressors of today. The imperialists, and the superpowers in particular, are beset with troubles and are on the decline. Countries want independence, nations want Liberation and the people want revolution-this is the irresistible trend of history...
Though no firm decisions have been taken on the precise programs to be reduced, there are some prime candidates. The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, which places unemployed low-income people in public service jobs, will cost an estimated $11 billion in fiscal 1979. But the program is beset by inefficiency and corruption; CETA officials often hand out jobs on a patronage basis. This month Labor Secretary Marshall set up a new investigative unit to try to root out fraud in the program...
...careers of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jim Croce and Buddy Holly, but it was a hand-gun that almost finished off Chicago. Earlier this year guitarist Terry Kath, one of the most creative members of the group, was playing with a gun that not-so-playfully went off and killed him. Beset at the time by various artistic and contractual problems, the members of Chicago considered bagging the whole thing and ending their joint musical career...
...beset last year by controversy over its term-bill method of funding, finds itself plagued this year by the opposite problem--not scrutiny, but apathy. Despite the extension of its deadline date for self-nomination of candidates, only about 20 of a possible 40 seats have contestants...
...more turbulent than Lady Macbeth. "I think perhaps you do not realise," Victoria complained to Lord Kitchener in the midst of World War I, "that we employ five carpenters and four painters and two blacksmiths and two footmen, and you are taking them all from us!" Victoria was so beset with lawsuits in her ill-tempered old age that she referred to her last residence, a Brighton villa, as the Writs Hotel...