Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NAFTA failure in Congress would cause Mexico and Latin America to reassess the value of swallowing bitter economic reforms in the hope of gaining greater access to rich markets. It would also call into question the U.S. ability to deliver uncontroversial trade agreements and undermine U.S. efforts to spur economic growth through a new world-trade pact...
Lyle Menendez:...A complicated, brilliant, arrogant boy, he has been seriously damaged by his impossible-to-please, unbearably domineering father...Cold, calculating, with a bitter, biting humor, Lyle both loathes and admires his father and feels nothing but contempt for his beaten-down mother...
Regardless of intelligence, talent, morality, or income, a Black person in American will surely experience the bitter taste of racism and prejudice throughout his or her lifetime. He or she will be treated differently by law enforcement officers, store owners, and employers. Being from a Washington, D.C. neighborhood that has been riddled by drugs and violence, I surely would not call myself "privileged." But the fact that I made it out of that environment and have succeeded at Harvard should have some positive effect on how I am perceived. However, nothing--not even a Harvard education--can change...
...something straight: No honest person can describe coffee as "fruity," let alone "full of conviction." A fairer description is "foul, acidic, bitter, tooth-staining, heartburn-causing and chemically addictive." That applies to "Dota Blend" just as accurately as to Dunkin Donuts' 50-cent special. It is instructive to note that for decades, conventional wisdom had it that coffee caused ulcers. (In fact, the real culprit was H. pylori bacteria.) If coffee doesn't rot out your gut, it tastes like it should...
...that will require a radical retrenchment on the entitlements -- mostly Social Security, Medicare and farm-support payments -- that make up more than half of all federal spending. In a new book, Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt & Restore the American Dream, Peterson holds out the bitter pill. "We can't do it without the middle class and we can't do it without going at entitlements head...