Word: besetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today the old ways are changing. Monrovia is still beset by some of the worst slums in Africa, and they lie within 500 yards of Tubman's splendiferous $15 million Executive Mansion. But the man in the mansion today, William Richard Tolbert Jr., 59, has plans for reform, and he seems to mean business. Very few Liberians expected anything like that. Tolbert had served 19 silent and subservient years as Vice President under "Uncle Shad." He also came from the same small elite of "Americo-Liberians" who have ruled the country pretty much in their own interests for more...
German Chancellor Willy Brandt is unhappy. He had hoped to attend next week's Social Democratic congress in Hannover with a renewed sense of strength as a result of his electoral victory last November. Instead, he is bothered, beleaguered and beset on all sides...
...squad was the subject of an article in this week's Sports Illustrated which dealt with the dissension and racial controversy which has beset the team...
...that the paper is more of a public-service institution than a mercantile enterprise. But Times executives have been forcefully reminded that they are running a business by recurrent evidence that business is not as good as it used to be. Now, on top of the cost pressures that beset many metropolitan dailies, the Times and the other New York City papers face crucial negotiations with 13 unions whose contracts expire March 30. A strike of any duration could be cruelly damaging...
...Levitt, Florida Gas Co., Potlatch Forests Inc., Hercules Inc. and Wickes Corp along with a score of smaller firms, also pulled put of the industry. Last year Florida's Behring Corp. cut its losses and closed down the nation's largest house-building plant. Beset by production and marketing troubles, another industry leader, Stirling Homex, crashed into bankruptcy seven months...