Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy are longterm. Will the recovery, disappointingly weak though it may be at first, continue beyond a year or so and lead to a sustained period of increasing production, incomes, jobs and living standards? That would belatedly vindicate President Reagan's view that the recession was the bitter price that had to be paid for future healthy growth. Or will the upturn sputter along at half-speed through many months or even years of continued high unemployment, until the economy slips into a new recession? Some liberal economists warn that this may happen, and conservatives by no means dismiss...
After ten weeks of bitter siege, the P.L.O. evacuation from West Beirut begins...
...hated as the Shah, if not more. The reason he has managed to retain his power is simple: a minority of Iranians are ferociously committed to him. But the people who do not support him have become cautious for two reasons: the regime's medieval brutality and their bitter disillusionment with revolutionary change. They are not willing to trust another leader easily, fearing a new, perhaps even more devastating betrayal...
Despite its bitter opposition to the Fidelity takeover, Bank-America maintained last week that it was "too early to tell" what kind of impact the merger would have on the Califor nia banking market. "We're not trembling with trepidation because Citicorp is coming to California," said Spokesman Ronald Owens. "We're ready to take on all entrants to this market. It just means the competition is going to get a little heavier." Bank-America, which must still receive the approval of the Federal Reserve Board for its own bold move out of traditional banking, the purchase...
...many groundbreaking lawsuits he has pressed during a 33-year career with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. For the past 21 of those years, he has been the L.D.F.'s respected director-counsel. But now the New York attorney is under fire in two bitter disputes. And partly underlying both is the issue of race. For Jack Greenberg is white...