Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 250,000 Shi'ite Muslims, some of whom were sympathetic to Iran's Islamic revolution. Yet Iranian bullying compelled many Shi'ites to renounce Iran's politics, causing a change in Kuwait's orientation. "What the Shah failed to do," says one bitter opposition leader, "[Ayatullah Ruhollah] Khomeini is actually succeeding in doing. The Shah wanted to force us into an alliance with the Americans in the region. Now Khomeini is forcing us into that alliance by fear...
...pile of allegations, suits and countersuits to the movie Rashomon, in which "every event is reported entirely differently by every person who saw it." The cast of the courtroom drama includes Coppola, Producer Robert Evans and Investors Fred and Edward Doumanl and Victor Sayyah, who have been waging a bitter back-lot struggle for control of the way-over-budget ($58 million in all, some say) Harlem jazz-era epic with Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Gregory Nines. Says Evans of Coppola, in one reported sample of the prevailing civility: "He has as much respect for money...
...Rajasthan, a state near the Pakistani border, where they called upon Sikh members of the army to rebel. Some of them did defect, while other Sikhs apparently donned army uniforms in an attempt to infiltrate and disrupt the front-line troops that shield India against potential attacks from its bitter enemy, Pakistan. The rebellion was swiftly quashed...
...debate is particularly bitter and controversial, especially among those whose careers were affected directly. But both sides would agree that universities across the nation tended to take their cues from Harvard's example...
...several years, members of the United Automobile Workers union have waged a bitter campaign to organize clerical and technical workers in the Harvard Medical Area. It has fought and lost two close campaigns to win the right to represent these workers...