Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Compared to proxy fights, takeover battles are downright gentlemanly," says a Wall Street veteran of many tussles. "This is where you get the real down and dirty, where the action can get bitter...
...highlight of the stop in Mexico City was an hour long interview with Mexico's President of five months, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who told the group that in trying to combat the current crisis, "we have had to combine the need for stringent, bitter and firm measures with the need to uphold our free democratic system." Excerpts from the President's remarks appear in this week's World section. In addition to meeting the President and presenting him with a glass eagle as a memento of the occasion, the group talked with the ministers...
...Senate's rejection of withholding was a particularly bitter defeat for Dole, who had assailed the banking lobby for calling the plan a "new tax" when it was really designed to catch tax cheaters and collect some $5.2 billion this year from the 20 million people who fail to report fully their interest and dividend income. Dole had filibustered gamely against the repeal bill, which was sponsored by Republican Bob Kasten, a freshman Senator from Wisconsin. But Dole last week could count only 27 other Senators (including 24 of 54 Republicans) on his side, and three of them were...
Still, progressives can learn some serious lessons from the episode. The heckling and bitter questioning highlighted telling defects in much of the political thinking behind the Left's opposition to the religious Right. Falwell's critics Monday night seemed to be reasoning in the following way: Falwell and his ilk claim to represent the true and original "God-centered" American political creed--to be the Founding Fathers' real heirs. To thwart the appeal of the flag, then, liberals must prove the moral bankruptcy of the nation the flag stand for. This strategy inevitably dissolves a mixture of tasteless religion-baiting...
Coming from a country which has historically had its own bitter share of regional conflict. I would expect people, who have their sympathies with one side in such a conflict, who nevertheless have only an essentially ideological interest in it and who get "passionately" involved in it from the, so to speak, affluent complacency of their Ivy League education. I would expect from such people to be in the forefront of reconciliation and of the search for a way to peace. If this is too much to hope for, as I bitterly realized last night. I would expect them...