Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asylum in the U.S., Marcos at least chose to leave without shedding blood. If the U.S. were to now leave these men out in the cold,it would make it tough in the future to get other miscreant leaders to abdicate without trying to hang on until the bitter, bloody...
...huge consumer demand for capsules still exists despite the Tylenol scare. Many people find the gelatin-cased medicine easier to swallow and less bitter than tablets. The bright color combinations of capsules also make them more readily identifiable. Moreover, because so many prescription medicines come in capsule form, a common--but false--impression has arisen that capsules are more effective than tablets...
Although Cornell can afford to carry on the supercomputer project without the federal money, giving up $10 million is a bitter pill to swallow. Thus the decision is both bold and praiseworthy. Other universities should also demand that the merit-review process be maintained. Indeed, some have already begun to do so--witness Harvard Vice President for Government and Public Affairs John Shattuck, who pledged that Harvard "will refuse all money not received by the peer review process...
...movie is set in the slums of Chicago at a bitter, inner-city high-school. Certainly, this is fertile ground from which to draw interesting characters and, perhaps, even social commentary. But, instead of making any kind of statement or even really using these ingredients to create unusual characters, the makers of this movie invoke over-used stereotypes and slapstick humor. The slum high-school is just a convenient if colorful backdrop for Goldie Hawn's dizzy smile and the players simply big, nondescript things to root...
...Armstrong, a Presbyterian conservative who has run the N.R.B. during two decades of astounding growth, boasts that his colleagues have "done what Ted Turner tried to do and Rupert Murdoch wants to do--create an alternative fourth network." The video preachers are often bitter competitors behind their on-camera smiles, yet Armstrong contends they constitute a network nonetheless, one defined by a shared viewpoint. To the dismay of more liberal Protestants, not to mention Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders, the people who have seized spiritual control of the tube are unremittingly Evangelical or Fundamentalist. Four of the top stars...