Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concern was natural. Dole has a grueling job even without the monstrous demands of a national campaign, demands he knows well from bitter experience. After he lost to Bush in 1988, Dole figured his chances at the White House were shot. As a loyal Republican, he couldn't imagine challenging a sitting President in the 1992 primaries. Then came the diagnosis of prostate cancer in 1991; he underwent surgery in December to have his prostate gland removed. Finally, Clinton's victory in 1992 seemed to herald a Democratic rebirth that would leave Dole sniping from the sidelines in his position...
...prices have shot up more than 50% in the past year, advertising in much of the country is soft after years of recession, and circulation at many papers is flat or declining. In recent months the Houston Post and the Baltimore Evening Sun have joined the casualties. And a bitter strike against the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News has opened the possibility that only one of those two papers will survive...
...these cost-cutting spasms that the stockholders think are important, they put some pressure on Mark Willes not to degrade quality," comments Bryce Nelson, interim chairman of the University of Southern California school of journalism and a former L.A. Times reporter. At New York Newsday, some staff members are bitter because they maintain the paper would have been in the black by next year. "They wanted to do a ritual slaughter for the amusement of Wall Street. They've done it, and the 80 children of the Chandler family made lots of money," says Jim Dwyer, a New York Newsday...
...bitter coda to its videotaped, six-minute reenactment ofSusan Smith's car sinking with her two young boys inside, the prosecution rested its case in the sentencing phase today by showing stone-faced jurors photographs ofthe drowned children. Since the trial began, TIME's Lisa Towle notes, Judge William Howard has disallowed all photos of the boys, and today he prevented the prosecution from displaying full-body or face-on shots. But Towle says those permitted today were damaging enough, showing the toddlers' bodies strapped securely to the seats -- "their legs and feet and the teddy bears in the back...
...looks play so many variations on the upper-class twit. Last year, besides his suavely manic turn in Four Weddings, he was seen as the prim prelate in the Australian soft-core Sirens and as an hors d'oeuvre to a sexually voracious woman in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon. Now three more Grant films are in the U.S. malls: he is the lead in Nine Months and An Awfully Big Adventure and a supporting player in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain...