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...assurances, Wickham said, has plagued everything from weapons systems to the most mundane matériel. The electronic weaponry of the Patriot ground-to-air missile was so failure-prone that the Army has decided to stop testing it for now. Until recently the Copperhead guided artillery projectile was beset with targeting problems. Even fatigue uniforms are not immune: one shipment shrank on being laundered...
...actors adorn their characters with a modest simplicity; they never try to make them into more than they just are--poor workers beset by circumstances largely out of their control. Gianfrancesco Guarneri as Otavio and Fernanda Montenegro as his wife Romano are magnificent relying frequently on silent movement and glances to display inner turmoil about their son and about their predicament with the strike. One particularly touching moment occurs as the two sit at the kitchen table, silently counting the red beans that will become their dinner. The movements of their languid hands, which grasp each other passionately, show more...
...Japanese writer's life beset with the hazards of suicide and silence, commercialism and inattention? Or does it take place in an unusually literate arena, where new works are still given an avid and intelligent reception? The evidence is conflicting. To be sure, every year, potentially serious readers turn from Kawataba to Mighty Atom. But every year fresh contestants enter poetry and fiction competitions. If some serious publishers have closed their doors, others offer a profusion of monthly, bimonthly and weekly magazines, about...
...unlike the prosperity of the '20s and '50s, Trudeau continued, the '80s are beset by economics problems unheard of in earlier eras, remaining his audience of the right job market they will soon confront...
...Wiliiamsburg, George Washington nurtured his friendships with Virginia's revolutionary leaders, and took military commissions that sent him to the frontier in the French and Indian War. Did Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, beset by European complaints about burgeoning U.S. deficits, know that his earliest counterpart, Alexander Hamilton, commanded the bayonet attack on the British redoubts at Yorktown, only 13 miles from Wiliiamsburg, in the decisive battle of the Revolution...