Word: bitter
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...pushed through legislation to limit picketing rights, ban secondary picketing and make national unions financially responsible for the actions of their members. She has taken on a number of the country's most powerful unions and crushed them: the steelworkers in 1980, the coal miners in 1985 after a bitter one-year strike, and the teachers last year. Partly as a result of Thatcher's efforts, union membership has fallen by one-quarter, to 9 million, and strikes are at a 50- year low. The number of workdays lost to labor disputes has declined from 29.5 million...
...Western alliance had been waiting for the decision. After a lengthy and bitter debate that almost split Chancellor Helmut Kohl's ruling conservative coalition, West Germany last week finally closed ranks with its allies and endorsed Mikhail Gorbachev's "double-zero" proposal to eliminate both long- and shorter-range intermediate nuclear forces from Europe. Bonn's decision will permit NATO Foreign Ministers, meeting this week in Reykjavik, to give U.S. arms negotiators an unambiguous go-ahead for an INF agreement with the Soviets. Suddenly, the much-discussed superpower summit this fall -- at which Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan would sign...
This year's debate over whether the council should serve as social engineer has been tame compared to the bitter battle last year over whether the council should take political stances...
Another problem has been the periodic emergence of bitter dialogue between Black student groups and the administration over the role of minority-oriented activities. Among other things, Black organizations have repeatedly called for a minority student center of the sort found at the other Ivy League institutions. "Separatism"--a term that conjures up images of the Black anger and militancy of the late '60s and early '70s--has been the pejorative buzzword associated with efforts to develop an insular Black community at Harvard. Though a critical percentage of Black students likely have never thought about a student center, the issue...
...were a couple of reporters back in 1972 just trying to make sense of Richard Nixon, and he leveled all the bitter might of the presidency at us and let fly. Neither I nor John Osborne, then of the New Republic, felt a thing. Nixon's memo of condemnation emerged just the other day from the 267,500 pages of personal papers released by the National Archives. It is a real zinger...