Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a long and often bitter battle between animal rights activists and Cambridge's vast scientific and research community, the city council this summer passed a ground-breaking ordinance to monitor the care of laboratory animals...
...years ago, Cambridge was the site of a City Council race that, while often bitter, was hardly revolutionary...
Alumni pro-divestment activists cheered when South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu won his bid for a seat on the 30-member Board of Overseers this June, but soon wondered if the election was just the sweet coating to a very bitter pill...
Early in December Harvard's announced plan to build a 200-room hotel on the Gulf station lot came under bitter attack from the members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who wanted an academic building on the site. After the faculty unanimously called on Harvard to "reconsider" the hotel plan Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence appointed a three -member committee to look into alternate uses, and the hotel project was temporarily suspended...
EVEN more central to campus life this year was the intense and, at times, bitter struggle to boost minority and women faculty hiring. Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition to this end this spring, and it was the Minority Student Alliance which issued the stinging critique that prodded the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into action last year...