Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live ethically. And if we can look upon the journey of life as a learning process, we will begin to perceive a lot of the difficult and disappointing things that happen along the way in a very different light--and perhaps grow from the experience, rather than turn bitter. You really can't control very much of what happens to you. But what you can control is how you react to the things that do happen. And there, I believe, is the key to finding out about life...
Wirthlin found that David Stockman, the bitter diarist who claims in his new book that the Reagan revolution failed, may be all wet. Americans feel Reagan's successes in reducing taxes and increasing opportunities are sound enough to rate as a revolution--or at least as a job very well done...
...least through May. The move infuriated exporters such as Yugoslavia and Poland, which rely on hard currency raised from agricultural sales to pay off foreign debts. Officials in Warsaw were especially angered by a U.S. plan to ship powdered milk for distribution in Poland through nongovernment agencies. Their bitter retort: an offer to send blankets and sleeping bags to private charities for the homeless in New York City...
...offer the expected opposition. | "Everybody will know whom we're talking about," he said, "so why not?" Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, whose country has the closest economic and emotional ties to its former colony Libya, was perhaps the most reluctant to go along. While Craxi eventually conceded, his bitter pill of support was sugared by an agreement to add Italy, as well as Canada, to the regular sessions that have been held by the finance ministers of the five other nations...
...Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the most radical of the insurgent factions fighting to establish an independent state in the northern and eastern parts of the country. The two bombings suggest that the militant Tamil insurgents are willing to bring the fighting to the capital, a significant escalation of the bitter three-year civil war in which more than 3,000 people have been killed. "These attacks," said an official of the National Security Ministry on TV following the second bombing, "indicate the group is no longer interested in a peaceful settlement of the ethnic problem...