Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rising crime rates in New Haven, coupled with a the widely publicized murder of a Yale undergraduate led applications to plunge 15 percent. Severe budget deficits were forcing the University to eliminate entire departments. And bitter disagreements between faculty and administrators prompted President Benno C. Schmidt to resign...
...family struggles, vibrant victories, and finally to the harsh realities that undercut the "dreams" of the film's title. William and Arthur's dreams are born, cultivated, encouraged, exploited and destroyed. The movie shows how and why their dreams of NBA stardom become less like dreams and more like bitter aftertastes...
...prediction about the elections this week could be considered safe, it was that Congress, paralyzed by bitter partisan warfare, was about to become even more divided along ideological lines. The Republicans, their ranks moving increasingly to the right, were poised to control more seats than at any time in the past 40 years. In the Senate, where G.O.P. control was only seven seats away, conservative candidates were faring better than more pragmatic hopefuls. In both parties, moderates were in retreat. The trend, said Senator John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat and committed middle-of-the-road er, is "not conducive...
...UCLA will issue a parallel guide to teaching world history. Disagreements over how to treat Western European civilization in relation to other cultures are said to have been particularly intense. In short, the conflict over National Standards may be only the first round in a long, bitter intellectual skirmish...
While the show closed on Friday, the criminal complaints have opened a Pandora's Box of bitter accusations and invective...