Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aides say, he will reassess his strategy; particularly if Mondale wins in Texas and Ohio, it will be almost impossible to deny him the nomination, and Hart may decide for the sake of party unity to aim his sharpest fire from that point on at Reagan. But Hart is bitter about what he sees as Mondale's hypocrisy. That resentment seethed to the surface last week when he noted, more than once, that he now doubts there is any way, even in the name of Democratic unity or his own future standing in the party, that he could serve...
...bountiful pay raises that top executives served themselves this year are in some cases turning into bitter fruit. Critics ranging from union leaders to management experts are assailing the increases as an affront to workers and a potential threat to the economy. Last week the attacks mounted. "A scandal and an outrage!" charged United Auto Workers Vice President Marc Stepp. "When I saw those numbers, I was stunned." Management Guru Peter Drucker, writing in the Wall Street Journal, called for voluntary curbs on top-executive paychecks, maintaining that if companies do not control themselves Congress will set up restrictions...
...nattily-attired Elliot L. Richardson '41, sitting with legs crossed, pauses over his salad at Boston's Cafe Tremont, looking like anything but a man about to embark on a grueling, and possibly bitter, fight to become a senator from Massachusetts...
...Boston Observer, in a recent piece on Richardson, contends that he was a Nixon apologist until the bitter end. The article quotes Nixon Administration staffer Charles Colson as saying of Richardson, "When we needed somebody to say George McGovern was a scatterbrain, Elliot went right our and swatted...
...Pete Farndon was strung out and couldn't admit he was a junkie," Hynde says, reflecting on her old colleague and former lover. Eventually, he had to be dismissed from the band, and Hynde last saw him at Honeyman-Scott's funeral. "He was terribly bitter and resentful. He felt like 'You fired me, but Jim's the one who died from drugs.' Ten months later," she adds, "Pete had drowned in the bath-tub with a needle sticking out of his arm." No stranger to indulgence herself ("I used to take any kind...