Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voter initiative that drastically slashed property taxes. Deukmejian faced a staggering $1.5 billion deficit, an unemployment rate of 11.2%, and a Democratic-controlled legislature steeling for a fight. Having pledged not to raise taxes, Deukmejian instead offered an 18-month salvage plan to balance the budget. The battle bitter. Deukmejian rejected the legislature's demands for a tax increase, and instead pared $1.1 billion from its budget by selective vetoes of spending items. The Democrats retaliated where they could, stonewalling Republican efforts to redraw the state's congressional districts and rejecting three of the Governor's high...
...bitter struggle between Sudan's Arab north and African south has a long and bloody history-one, ironically, that Nimeiri thought he had ended more than a decade ago. After overthrowing a civilian government led by Mohammed Mahgoub in 1969, Nimeiri negotiated an end to 17 years of bloody civil war in 1972. Nimeiri has remained in power since then, staging three referendums that have overwhelmingly returned him to office. Residents of the southern part of the country, however, cite numerous grievances. They complain, for example, that when the Chevron Oil Co. discovered oil in the south, the government...
...choose a President. "Elections are the key," says Pickering. "The government has a real opportunity to increase its support." But the guerrillas are equally determined to sabotage and discredit this attempt at U.S.-style democracy. The presidential campaign between U.S. -backed centrists and the reactionary right will be bitter and divisive. Whether a fair election can be held at all will depend on an army that has yet to prove its valor in battle or its commitment to change. - By John Kohan. Reported by Timothy Loughran/San Salvador and Johanna McGeary/ Washington
...started as a bitter struggle between Gordon Getty, amateur composer and opera singer, and the defiant managers running Getty Oil, the cornerstone of the empire built by the late Jean Paul Getty. As the battle developed, both sides resorted to intrigue and duplicity worthy of the Medicis. But late last week, giant Texaco unexpectedly entered the picture and seemed likely to emerge the winner by offering to buy up Getty Oil for about $9.9 billion. The deal, subject to stockholder approval and a green light from Justice Department antitrust lawyers, could be the largest takeover in U.S. history (previous record...
...cutbacks raised fears in 1 Kodak's home town of Rochester, where the firm is affectionately known as "the Great Yellow Father." Even those affected, however, have been more understanding than bitter. Says Alfred Monk, who took early retirement after 33 years as a stockroom employee: "If Kodak is whittling down, it must be because they have...