Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sternglass's warning was exaggerated. But no one-not even radiation experts-can say for sure that he is totally wrong. Despite science's long experience with radiation and bitter knowledge of its risks, like the cancers inflicted on early radium workers, including Madame Curie, disturbingly little is known about how much radiation, or what length of exposure, is safe for humans...
...pact was but a single step toward a comprehensive peace. Says Hisham Sharabi, a Georgetown University historian and president of the National Association of Arab Americans: "The treaty doesn't even touch the central problem of Palestinian self-determination. As a result, the Arab world is more bitter and frustrated than ever...
About halfway through the 90-minute interview in Tobruk, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was interrupted by a military aide who handed him a note. The revolutionary who heads Libya's government paused in his bitter denunciation of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty just long enough to read the message. Then he smiled wanly, shook his head and waved the aide away with the back of his hand. The note informed Gaddafi that live TV coverage of the White House signing ceremony was beginning in the next room. Gaddafi clearly preferred to talk about the treaty rather than join his staff...
...1940s, he has devoted his prodigious energies to helping build Ford into a worldwide auto empire with 495,000 employees and annual sales of $43 billion. Now, at 61, as he prepares to step aside as chief executive, he is finding himself embroiled in a series of bitter legal skirmishes...
America's TV manufacturers have long been bitter about the flood of Japanese television sets into the U.S. For nearly ten years, they have insisted that these imports, which last year totaled 2.8 million sets and captured 40% of the market, have been illegally "dumped," sold at cheap prices way below those charged in Japan. But the last three Administrations have been strangely deaf to the industry's plaints. Investigations into the charges have been halted, and dumping duties that should have been collected have not been. Now, at the prodding of Congress, the Carter Administration...