Word: bitter
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...creeping into the President's assessments of the economy too. Reagan is well aware that the recession has reinforced a widespread impression that he is indifferent to the sufferings of the poor and unemployed; some 300 demonstrators drove home the point last week by assembling in the bitter cold outside Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel and chanting, "We want jobs!" At the Percy dinner inside, the President told his partisan audience: "In the long run, economic growth will put our unemployed back to work, revive idle factories and open new doors of opportunity. But in the short...
...foul. Its unemployment rate, along with Wisconsin's, was historically lower than the national average. Now it is higher: 13.4% for the city (11.5% for the state). Layoffs and plant closings in the city, which used to call itself the "machine shop of the world," have left residents bitter and dispirited with 50,000 out of work...
Despite such bitter criticism, there is at least one faint sign that the U.S. approach might succeed. South African and Angolan representatives are expected to meet soon in the Cape Verde Islands to discuss not only the Cuban troop withdrawal, but South Africa's frequent raids into Angolan territory in search of SWAPO rebels. Whether the talks will contribute to a settlement is another matter. The bleak assessment from General Constand Viljoen, commander of the 20,000 South African troops fighting against SWAPO in Namibia, is that his occupying forces will not be withdrawn from the territory this year...
...Hubbard's absence, Scientology is deeply riven by bitter disputes. A dozen or so of Hubbard's youngest followers, who have spent much of their lives in the cult's bizarre world, have seized control of the organization. Claiming to be "on Source" with Hubbard, and to be acting under his direction, they are also trying to gain control of the church's assets, estimated to be more than $280 million. About 75 senior leaders have been purged by the young zealots in a coup that has shaken the 29-year-old church...
...good versus evil struggle. Attenborough achieves in the film a significant, if somewhat unsubtle, portrayal of the sins of colonialism--sins which may have slipped from contemporary consciousness with the political polarization and generally awful governance of the Third World over the last 20 years. (This too is the bitter legacy left by colonial powers.) There is an unwillingness to see beyond the grossness and malice of a mine owner who sends mounted troops out to beat protestors or the cupidity of a flaccid land owner who is squeezing everything out of his tenants. Gandhi, however, is a movie...