Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After five years of debate, President Neil L. Rudenstine has proposed a plan that has the potential to end the long ROTC saga that has left rights groups bitter and supporters of ROTC in suspense...
...office and launched a series of films that peaked in 1986 with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which grossed $110 million. Only Roddenberry felt left out. Though listed as executive consultant on all the films, he was largely supplanted by other producers. "He was pretty bitter about the films," recalls writer Tracy Torme. "He really felt like they took the films away from...
Harvard's hockey team has found itself in similar situations this season. In its three games, the Crimson has usually come out strong in the first and second periods. The final stanza, however, has often left a bitter taste in its mouth...
...Arafat to change his habit of managing by dictate. He still refuses to create an accounting system that would satisfy would-be givers of international aid. As a result, of $550 million in assistance pledged for this year, only $50 million has been received. Arafat is also hampered by bitter divisions among his lieutenants. According to two senior Arafat aides in the territories, Farouk Kaddoumi, the foreign minister of the Palestine Liberation Organization, wrote to donor countries from the group's former headquarters in Tunis stating that since their contributions might be misused by the Palestinian authority in Gaza, they...
...colorful councillor, who had repeatedly resisted demands for his resignation, fought to the bitter end. While the Massachusetts General Laws state that a public official must vacate office upon sentencing, the five-term councillor insisted that he was entitled to serve until his prison term started...