Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keaton's performance and a handful of funny lines are not enough, however, to save Baby Boom from its insubstantiality. If it weren't for the bitter aftertaste of the movie's fatuous treatment of an important question or its vitriolic stereotyping, Baby Boom would be completely forgettable...
Williams did something foolish, something irresponsible--something wrong. He deserves some kind of discipline. But forcing him to sit out a football season, his final football season, was probably not the proper punishment. Williams would have had bitter feelings for the rest of his life...
...bitter debate is a result of the rise of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and, in turn, its vocal opponents at Harvard Law School. The schism between these two relatively small but intellectually agressive factions has grown wider and more public over the past few years--leading to full-fledged scholarly war during the past six months on the battlefield of tenure decisions...
...view of the Administration's past record, few expect the report to call for making current U.S. punitive actions any tougher, even if it deems the current sanctions completely unsuccessful. But there is little sentiment in Congress to abandon after only one year a program that passed amid bitter debate and provided at least the appearance that the U.S. was doing something about apartheid...
...Colino decide to rip off his employer? A former Comsat associate describes Colino as "ambitious and manipulative" and bitter at not advancing more rapidly earlier in his career. An associate in Intelsat speculates that Colino thought he would make the organization "grow so fast they wouldn't miss the money." But they did, and a promising career self-destructed...