Word: welter
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...most frustrated leader of all may be Ronald Reagan, who is hobbled by the Iranscam tangle and the increasing welter of problems arising from the U.S.'s foreign and domestic indebtedness. Not only the President but also the U.S. itself are widely seen as weaker abroad, a perception that is reflected in a declining American ability to lead the way on international economic issues. That fact may reflect one of the major challenges of the summit: How can allies long accustomed to U.S. leadership find solutions to their economic problems at a time when the U.S. is becoming, at best...
...line with tax reform, the new 1040s will include five income brackets, instead of 15. Many of the intricate old deductions, including the write-off for state sales tax, are gone. But supplemental income schedules contain a welter of new instructions. What does the IRS, fresh from the humiliating recall of its W-4 withholding forms, have to say? The changes, pleads Arthur Altman, head of the IRS group that redesigned the forms, are a "reflection of what Congress has given...
Near the end of each week Senior Writer George Church pursues a late-evening ritual. Up and down, up and down, Church slowly paces the corridor of the Nation section in his stocking feet, puzzling out his story, drawing together elements from a welter of reportage and weaving those parts into the firm, seamless narratives that have made his writing almost legendary at TIME. Every so often on these jaunts a thoughtful grunt escapes his lips and he smiles in satisfaction. He then heads quickly back to his computer terminal to tap out the results of his stroll in paragraphs...
...that secret talks between Washington and Tehran have been aborted by the Iranscam scandal, negotiations on the blocked funds are the only known contact between the two countries. The U.S. has acknowledged that the money belongs to Iran, but the two sides remain divided over a welter of technical details. At midweek the latest round of talks ended inconclusively...
...books of poetry, Conquest is no stranger to Stalinist atrocities, as witness his magisterial 1968 study, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. For Harvest he gathered a mass of scattered data, including testimony by survivors and participants, accounts by foreign witnesses and unpublished documents. From this welter of evidence he concludes that the peasants were hit by three separate blows...