Word: bitter
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Opposition will be bitter. Truckers and other big fuel users are claiming that energy taxes depress the economy and wipe out jobs. They have been joined by the very liberal Citizens for Tax Justice, which complains that energy taxes would hurt the poor and middle class. The Administration would probably try to give back some of the money to the poor in the form of a higher earned- income tax credit or some similar device. The Administration's essential argument is that it needs the money, and this is one way to raise it that also promotes energy conservation...
...unarmed opposition is precariously united behind Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi, a human-rights activist and a bitter personal enemy of the President's. Last week each accused the other of treason as Mobutu tried to dismiss Tshisekedi, who adamantly refuses to step down. "The killings in recent weeks have only made Mobutu stronger," cautions a senior Western diplomat, who notes that the dictator's demise has often been forecast before. "He clearly calculates that the physical elimination of a few of his enemies will have a deterrent effect on the rest of the population...
...president came out and said it Monday night: taxes on the middle class will go up. Clinton quickly coated this bitter pill with the fact that 70 percent of new revenues will come from those earning more than $100,000. But the indisputable call for middle class tax increases, along with the persistent rumors of a planned energy tax, signal that reality has sunk in at the White House...
...uncommon but annoying fire- alarm ritual of getting out of bed and shuffling outside into the bitter cold has become all too familiar to the irate residents of Dunster and Mather houses in recent weeks...
...section of Brooklyn) and was taken in by a white father figure (trainer Cus D'Amato). Like Queen, Tyson had an emotional, childlike personality (in one clip he weeps in anxiety before a match at the Junior Olympics). His encounters with the outside world, like Queen's, leave him bitter and disillusioned. Says Tyson about the various promoters, managers and other gold diggers who fought over him: "My philosophy was, like, people basically suck...