Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been the peak of the band's career. Defying those who would have buried them under the memories of Altamont, the Stones reached new levels of vengeful, stripped down musical power. The sex described on Sticky Fingers was somehow more pungent than before, the cynicism even more bitter. Exile had more of the same dripping decadence--the talk was of getting laid, getting wasted, and getting by, as it always has been, but a new theme of incongruity crept into the Jagger-Richards songs. Men born before the end of World War Two juggling groupies and shooting smack...
Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History. A specialist in pre-revolutionary Russia, Pipes now is the National Security Council's chief Soviet expert. Hawkish on defense issues, Pipes is a bitter enemy of the Soviets, whom he considers dangerous expansionists and implacable foes of the United States. Pipes got himself into hot water last March when he told an interviewer that detente was dead and that a war between the superpowers was inevitable if the Soviet Union didn't peacefully change its system. The White House and State Department quickly slapped his wrists, and there hasn't been...
...University knew that the Harvard Square Defense Fund and other groups had brought the private developers of nearby Parcel 1b to their knees with a series of lawsuits; the parking lot development promised to be a case of similar cooperate-from-the-start or fight-it-out-to-the-bitter-end. Working together--financially and psychologically--is almost always less costly. And the compromises reached are usually about the same as would result from an adversarial proceeding...
...statue of John Harvard. Deane Lord saw that sight, but she saw another too--the men who ran Harvard grieving as they looked on. "There were grown men with tears streaming down their faces watching the police go in," Lord says. And so she didn't grow as bitter with Harvard as many; she recognized the bad things, but she recognized the good as well, and kept on loving the University. Which, considering her job, is fortunate...
...July, Edwards was on the verge of awarding $3.5 billion in loan and price guarantees for three synfuel projects when Stockman tried to cut off the money. After bitter private discussions, the two men had to take the issue to the President for a decision. Reagan surprised some of his closest staffers by agreeing to go ahead with $3.1 billion in loan guarantees for the Great Plains coal gasification project in Beulah, N. Dak., and the Colony shale oil venture near Parachute, Colo. Washington also authorized spending up to $400 million to guarantee the price of oil produced from shale...