Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Bitter man meets troubled boy with predictably uplifting results...
...Apparently the parents were going through a divorce, and it was a very bitter divorce," says Captain Vince McInerney. "There were arguments over custody. The boy was living with his dad, and a younger sister lived with the mom and the mother's parents." The gun reportedly belonged to the boy's father; police have not determined whether the murder was premeditated or the father was involved. "Disputes used to be settled with a shouting match or a punch in the nose," sighs McInerney...
Endorsed candidates said they saw the formation of the Alliance for Change as a helpful step on the road to healing bitter partisan divisions on the city council...
...tenuous to prove, it looked as if the many years of highly charged debate over the notorious defoliant used in Vietnam were over. Only 1,000 of the 39,000 claims made would be paid out; the rest of the veterans would be left with nothing but bitter memories...
...nasty when business is bad -- as it certainly is in Europe these days. Last week German investigators found three boxes of documents from a General Motors subsidiary in the apartment of former employee Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, now with Volkswagen, and a feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office in Darmstadt. "But I can say with certainty that...