Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tennessee, a believer in conciliation and consensus. On the other was a cadre of fervent right-wingers led by North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a maverick ideologue and veteran obstructionist. Ostensibly the issue was the 5? gasoline tax. But after six postmidnight sessions and four filibusters, the bitter battle became one over party power and personal pride...
...Jersey is the latest state to return to 21. Governor Thomas Kean will sign the bill this week that was passed by the legislature over the bitter complaints of college students and tavern owners. Insisted New Jersey Assemblyman Martin Herman: "At this holiday time, there is no more important gift we can give than the gift of life." In Massachusetts, the American Automobile Association filed legislation to nudge the drinking age from 20 to 21. "Too often kids learn to drink and drive at the same time," said AAA Spokeswoman Kathleen Maurer. A Governor's task force in Texas...
Having learned from bitter experience what can happen to their investments in a recovering economy, bondholders in recent weeks have grown wary and started cashing in on their spectacular 1982 profits while the economy is still weak. The selling has put further downward pressure on prices, which have slipped by an average of about 5% from their rally peaks. That in turn has helped hold interest high, and made businessmen and investors start to wonder if the cost of money will fall much farther under even the most favorable circumstances...
...frequently bitter two-day session merely papered over conflicts that have been brewing since 1981, when the global recession helped spawn a worldwide oil glut. The 13 member nations agreed to let OPEC's bench-mark crude-oil price stand at $34 per bbl., its level for more than a year. They also approved a 1983 production limit of 18.5 million bbl. per day. That would be about the same amount that members pumped during 1982, but it would be higher than the 17.5 million-bbl. ceiling that OPEC set for itself last March. Said a U.S. oil-company...
First came the good news: the state of martial law that was imposed by General Wojciech Jaruzelski exactly one year earlier would be suspended by year's end. But then, as Jaruzelski proceeded with his nationwide television address, came the bitter reality: the government was preparing new laws that would, if anything, further restrict the freedom of Poles...