Word: besetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leadership for the Continent is no where on the horizon. Europe today is governed by political technicians who devote most of their energies to tinkering with domestic affairs to remain in power-and do even that badly. Every major leader is beset by crises. Some, like France's Georges Pompidou and West Germany's Willy Brandt, seem tired and bored; others, like Britain's Edward Heath, are fighting for their political lives. All of them are, essentially, afraid to make decisions that would promote the cause of Europe for fear that they might cause momentary domestic complications...
...does raise serious concerns about the problem of juvenile delinquency and what can be done about it. The slaying of the 16-year-old and many other less sensational individual tragedies of the Chinese in the United States, can be attributed to the many social and economic problems that beset large urban Chinatowns. Few people outside the Chinese community realize the serious plight of the urban Chinese and are surprised by news of delinquency and poverty among an ethnic group that is generally perceived as a hard-working one with a strong and stable family structure. But those within...
...prove successful. Once again summonses to a new national resolve and unity sounded in the rhetoric of the hour. Confronted like the rest of Western Europe with a shortfall in oil supplies and impossible prices for the oil it can still buy, Britain, unlike its neighbors, was beset by a crisis within a crisis-and one largely produced at home...
Arabs charge that these centers are beset by a condition known as "Arablessness," and that this in turn gives American students a distorted, outsiders' view of Arab culture. A major manifestation is a lack of scholars from the Arab world, particularly in contemporary studies. Harvard, for instance, has three Arabs on its tenured faculty, but two are medievalists and the third is a linguist. There are no tenured Arabs at all in the University of Chicago's Middle Eastern program, and only one in a staff of 15 at Berkeley...
...such problems beset the judges awarding the prizes for economics and literature, which went to Harvard's Wassily Leontief, 67 (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and Australian Patrick White, 61, whose sensitive, lonely novels are set against the vast open spaces of his homeland...