Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...above the parliamentary election battle. The 71-year-old Socialist, after all, had won re-election handily only five weeks earlier largely by promising to bring a measure of consensus to a confrontational style of politics. Last week, though, as a desultory legislative campaign suddenly turned into the traditionally bitter left-right duel, Mitterrand decided it was time to intervene on behalf of the embattled left. "I ask Frenchwomen and Frenchmen to confirm the vote they delivered in the second round of the presidential election last May 8," he declared at his weekly Cabinet meeting. "To carry out my mission...
...council resolved the Russian Church's most bitter internal problem: control of local parishes. According to Orthodox canonical tradition, the priest is the head of his parish. In 1961, however, during the height of Nikita Khrushchev's antichurch campaign, the Orthodox hierarchy was forced to accept a ruling that gave Communist Party-approved lay delegates full control over each parish, making the priest a mere salaried functionary who presides at worship. In a major concession from the Gorbachev regime, the much hated regulation was revoked at last week's council. The new church charter also provides for regularly scheduled national...
...Lalonde's crusade to "enhance the status of the French Acadian people" was seen as a bit of harmless posturing for his constituents. But then the Cajun legislators flexed their political muscle, and the bill sailed through the state house by a vote of 74 to 22, despite the bitter opposition of black legislators. "This is not only facetious but borders on the ludicrous," exclaimed State Representative Avery Alexander. Attempting to derail the bill, Alexander offered a facetious amendment of his own, designating Irish Americans as another minority group. But ridicule can be a dangerous weapon in the Louisiana legislature...
Whatever the outcome of the California primary between Jackson and Michael Dukakis, Brown will return to the national stage for the first time since the 1972 Democratic Convention. There, during a bitter credentials fight, he won TV celebrity by demanding, "Give me back my delegation!" This year in Atlanta, Brown will bargain for Jackson, pushing the party hard to the left on rules, platform and ticket. "If Jackson's program is not made the hallmark of the Democratic platform," he warns, "the new voters that Jackson brought out in the primaries will not be motivated in November...
While the 1988 squad fell just short of recapturing the Eastern title, a lot of that bitter feeling was erased by the strong performance of Bird and his teammates. Not only did the Crimson win more that individual titles than the Tigers, but it also outscored Princeton in the 16 swimming events...