Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Yergin, interviewed in his K-School office, Americans find it very comforting to have a "1950s attitude of energy self-sufficiency" currently fashionable in Washington. But behind that sugar coating of "limitless domestic resources" is the bitter pill of the West's future energy vulnerability...
...primary contest, stayed annoyingly vague for the first nine months of the campaign, trading insults and slurs with his opponent, rather than staking out clear positions on the issues. For the problems of crime, unemployment, and local aid, he has offered nebulous formulas without specific solutions. Now that the bitter grudge match between Dukakis and King is over, we hope that the next seven weeks will bring a respectable debate between the former governor and Sears on the real concerns of Massachusetts voters...
...shaking it out of its mid-'70s doldrums. Although Costello was never really a part of the Pistols' punk movement, he found a comfortable niche anyway, "surfing" on the new wave, as he likes to put it. A pumped-up Steve Nieve keyboard; an acid-tinged tongue; a bitter searching voice--these were the early Costello trademarks, and they even betrayed at times a vitriol seldom equaled by the best of the punks...
Costello once focused the same sorts of ideas and innovation into bitter anger. That approach worked for a while, but Elvis eventually crumbled under the weight of his own expections. It's time for him to focus his loosey-goosey energies once more. You know it's coming, and you have to hope for El's sake that his new tactics aren't as self-destructive...
Domestic opposition to Hussein's rule has diminished over the years. At the beginning of his reign, the King permitted a large degree of democracy. But freedom bred instability, as radical Palestinian groups and supporters of Hussein's bitter enemy, the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, sought to undermine his regime. Hussein now rules as an absolute monarch. The return of political stability has promoted an unprecedented period of prosperity. Unemployment is low; the economy, based on agriculture, mining and tourism, is growing at an annual rate of about 10%. More than half the population lives today...