Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incessant drumbeat of episodes like these has Americans increasingly concerned that their country is under siege and, in the popular phraseology, "has lost control of its own borders." In a study published last June, Bard College economist Dimitri Papadimitriou concluded that new laws were needed to head off "a bitter struggle between these new immigrants and disadvantaged segments of the U.S. population for increasingly scarce low- skill, low-wage jobs...
...recent months, officers have said the Harvard police unit is racked by internal dissension and inconsistent management. Much of the discontent seems to have been fueled by bitter negotiations between the University and members of the police officers' union, who have been working without a contract for nearly 18 months...
...vote in the House for the North American Free Trade Agreement, Bill Clinton was already lining up allies for future battles. As Air Force One carried him to Seattle for a meeting with 13 Asian and Pacific leaders, he called Lane Kirkland of the AFL-CIO to say their bitter differences on the trade pact should not prevent them from joining forces on health-care reform and worker- retraining plans. He called Dan Rostenkowski and urged the House Ways and Means Committee chairman to push the languishing jobless-benefits bill. From the White House, Hillary Clinton joined in, telephoning...
...Piano is Campion's coming of age -- a delivery on the promise of her first two features. Sweetie (1989), about the devastating effect a disturbed young woman has on her family, was bitter medicine; the movie double-dared its audience to find sympathy in its dour or manic characters. In An Angel at My Table (1990), a three-part mini-series based on the biographies of Australian novelist Janet Frame, Campion located her elliptical, microcosmic style. But % this lovely film lost its way before its climax, and before it could find a wider audience...
...bitter truth that 20 years of peacekeeping [in Cyprus] has not contributed to peacemaking," he said...