Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALSO IN THE HOUSE is Moe Axelrod, the boarder, a small time drifter laden with a heart of coal. His leg was shot off in the Great War, and he is as bitter as we expect him to be: he clumps about the apartment in his double-breasted pinstripe suit and porkpie hat, spouting off a ridiculous agglomeration of cynical street idiom: "You ain't sunburned. You hoid...
...focus on these questions of right and wrong, the editors have decided to create a new section of the magazine called Ethics. The section is being launched this week with a story on the bitter custody battle between the surrogate mother of New Jersey's Baby M. and the biological father and his wife...
Says Miller, who has returned to Colorado for a short time: "When I decided to join the Jewish people, I thought innocently that I was making a strictly personal commitment. But to my disappointment, I found myself at the center of an acute public controversy. I have undergone bitter experiences that are not easy to forget...
...would have been easy enough for Roderick to submit, faced as he was with enormous pressures on all sides. For the past year the oil and gas business, which generates some 60% of USX revenues, has been hit by declining petroleum prices. USX has also been mired in a bitter five-month-old strike by 22,000 steelworkers. The firm, which earned $409 million on sales of $19.3 billion in 1985, is expected to report a net loss for 1986 of about $500 million on revenues of some $16.5 billion...
...would also be a prescription for a bitter conflict with Capitol Hill that Reagan probably could not win. The Administration will have all it can do next month to persuade Congress to release the final 40% of the $100 million in aid for the contras that it approved last year. The fear that Congress might cut off aid to punish the White House for slipping Iranian arms-sale profits to the contras has faded; reliable nose counters like Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole discern a majority in favor of continued help. But it is an extremely thin one -- perhaps...