Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HEALTH: Oregon's Bitter Medicine...
...injury to bench Galieva, made a quick substitution and, lo, Gutsu was in. Sure enough, she won the gold. Now Gutsu's triumph, impressive as it was, will always carry a caveat -- "Remember? She didn't even qualify for the all-around." And Galieva will have to digest the bitter lesson that fairness and feelings count for nothing in gymnastics; all that matters is winning...
Costas' tightly formatted half time shows often allow sports figures to get away with bitter cant and shameless self-promotion. It's a gig Costas is eager to outgrow. During the Games he is determined to curtail Olympic hype, and he intends to refrain pointedly from calling every upcoming event "exciting" and every confrontation "critical." Even with the tape delays necessitated by time differences, Costas will cover events as they happen, a high-wire act that will show off his considerable ad-lib talents...
...left), was long confined to the Barnes Foundation building in a Philadelphia suburb, under the terms of Dr. Albert Barnes' will. But 70 pieces will soon be permitted a one-time international tour, according to a ruling issued last week by a Pennsylvania court that settled part of a bitter factional dispute within the foundation. The show will travel to the National Gallery of Art in Washington and possibly to other museums in France, Japan and the U.S., to help raise $7 million for repairs and modernization at the gallery back home...
...sample sent to him by Montagnier's lab. But Gallo grabbed the spotlight and tried to deny the significance of the French achievement -- until the facts came out and Montagnier got the credit he deserved. A pained smile plays over Montagnier's face as he recalls the years of bitter charges and countercharges. "The whole scientific community followed Gallo," he says. "We knew we were right, even if we were the only people in the world to know...