Word: bitter
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Arafat remains highly controversial in Israel and abroad. The legacy of terrorism associated with Arafat's Palestinian Liberation Organization leads some people to regard his strides toward peace as illegitimate. Right-wing politicians in Israel are bitterly contesting the peace agreements. And Arafat now faces bitter opposition from extremist Arab groups, such as Hamas, who are desperately trying to disrupt the peace process. Hamas has been responsible for recent suicide bombings in Israel. Fortunately, the peace process has continued despite the obstacles posed by radicals on both sides...
...bankruptcy and have the added benefit of giving seniors more health-care options. To no one's surprise, Democrats continued to attack the plan as an unnecessary hatchet job designed to finance a $245 billion G.O.P. tax cut for the wealthy. The acrimony between the two parties grew more bitter still when the American Medical Association announced it was endorsing the G.O.P. plan. The apparent quid pro quo: Republicans agreed to spare doctors from fee reductions, exempt them from certain antitrust restrictions and cap large malpractice awards...
...with the Republican Medicare reform bill slated to hit the House floor today, Harvard's affiliated hospitals are bracing themselves for a new kind of bitter medicine...
...MUST HAVE BEEN A MEMORABLE DAY, the one that Louis Farrakhan recalled recently in his newspaper, The Final Call. A bitter day of looking on from the sidelines, a day to hear a proud old man's oath. "I was visiting with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as we watched [Martin Luther King's] 1963 March on Washington," Farrakhan wrote of his now deceased mentor. "He said that he saw too much frivolity, joking and a picnic atmosphere. He said, 'One day, Brother, I will call for a March on Washington...
...next step is to defeat a good Ivy League school, as in Yale this Saturday. Not only are the Bulldogs more skilled (they even defeated preseason favorite and bitter Harvard rival Brown) than anyone Harvard has played except maybe Cornell and Colgate, but the intensity level for that game is certainly much higher than what yesterday's match showed...