Word: bitter
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Eventually, the deficit-cutting medicine is likely to be bitter enough for the most masochistic tastes. Besides the hefty tax increases already proposed, the President in effect has confirmed that he is likely to call for higher excise taxes on liquor and tobacco as part of his eventual health-care reform program -- and even those "sin taxes" would not come anywhere near offsetting the costs of making health-insurance coverage universal. On a happier, though still controversial, note, Clinton unveiled a program to invest $17 billion of federal money over the next five years in civilian high- tech projects. Much...
...think once in a while you get some insightful criticism. I've gotten generous criticism from people like Henry Louis Gates and people form different countries. I've gotten very bitter criticism in the United States. They tried to stop me in the 60s and 70s. And then, what I call the "negro catchers" tried to stop me. Frederick Douglass talked about the bounty hunters who used to try to crack down on the slaves, and the Black ones were worse than the white ones. So I've had them. Some of it's been fun, because I always think...
...exposed its impotence in foreign policy. Its prosperity is undermined by global recession. Turmoil in the money markets has reinforced doubts about the E.C.'s ability to achieve a single currency and greater political union. In a climate of growing unemployment, a spate of factory closings is leading to bitter rivalry: France is seeking to stop Hoover Europe from moving 600 manufacturing jobs from Dijon to Glasgow. Glasgow is protesting Nestle's subsidiary Rowntree's plans to shut a chocolate factory, transferring operations outside Scotland. "European unity might be good for business," says customs clerk Retegui, reflecting widespread popular unease...
MANY AMERICANS TOOK last week's call for "contributions" in the spirit of a bracing tonic, bitter but salutary. But how will they feel about being asked to drink from the same cup two months from...
...Sessionses have not been been shy about taking their case to the press. In late January, after the Justice Department report was issued, Sessions invited a dozen reporters to his office. He engaged in a bitter soliloquy in which he asserted that his nemesis Barr "was in league with others" to do him in. Although Sessions declined to be interviewed for this story, his wife told TIME, "All I have done is stand by my honest man. I know what Bill Sessions is, and I know what he does and doesn't do. We were raised middle- class Midwest...