Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liberal economists are relishing the Administration's plight. Says Walter Heller, onetime chief economic adviser to John F. Kennedy: "You really had to be an ostrich not to see this thing coming. It is not just the inherent contradictions within the program but the bitter rivalries between the monetarists, supply-siders and budget-balancers within the Administration, who are all out to influence policy...
...outcome of last week's meeting was far different from any in nearly two years. Instead of long and bitter talks that ended in a deadlock over the price they should charge for oil, the OPEC ministers needed just nine hours and ten minutes to agree on a new base price of $34 per bbl., $2 more than the current rate for Saudi Arabian light crude but $2 less than the bench-mark level they have been using as a pricing guide since last December. Moreover, the oil producers said that the price would remain at that rate through...
...bitter joke afterward: What better champion for the phoniest of baseball seasons than the Los Angeles Dodgers? Hooray for Hollywood. Former Dodger Pitcher Don Sutton used to keep a telegram (and his perspective) tacked on his locker, six MILLION BEST WISHES, it read; signed LEE AND FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS. Sutton loved to laugh and say: "Nice of their publicist to do it." One wall of the Dodger Stadium office of Tommy Lasorda, the manager who kisses and hugs his players like a game-show host, is a shrine to Frank Sinatra. What better place to hang this year...
...film in those mulling moments so kindly provided by traffic jams and checkout-counter lines. Indeed, one rather imagines it was blank moments like those that kept Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant, a particularly lovely newcomer) alive in each other's minds between the bitter breakup of their tumultuous romance and their next meeting, seven years later. This occurs when Mathilde and her new husband happen to move in next door to the house Bernard occupies serenely with his wife and child. Civility and discretion quickly fail. Bernard is determined to return their relationship...
...shocked by the devastating changes that he was unable to blend into the new club. Presiding over it all was Coach Jack Ramsay, a fiercely proud tactician who did not coach as much as seek a vision of perfection on court. Ramsay was in turn bewildered, angry and, finally, bitter over the unraveling of the ideal...