Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bitter cold reflected Harvard's lackluster play...
...much as I enjoyed reading Layden's comments, I think that this is one time when we have to swallow that bitter pill known as hatred and support the bad guys, even though it's about as enjoyable as kissing a lizard...
...other parts of the country the fight over redistributing privilege remains bitter. Texas' state supreme court ruled in 1989 that gross educational inequality could no longer be condoned. Since then Texas lawmakers have come up with two plans that the judiciary found unsatisfactory. Governor Ann Richards signed a compromise law last year that shifted millions of dollars in property-tax revenue to poorer districts, but the bill's constitutionality is still under challenge in the courts...
...embracing humans as an integral part of nature, restorationists are bringing a fresh perspective to the increasingly bitter contest between those who would exploit wild areas and those who would preserve them. Even more important, in their heroic, often desperate struggle to recover what has nearly been lost, they have grasped a truth many of us only dimly comprehend: if the fate of humans depends on nature, the fate of nature, irrevocably and irretrievably, rests in human hands...
...wrong...In the 19th Century there were many bitter political battles about Supreme Court nominees...Our notion that it's a new thing, which people do generally believe, is quite wrong. It's simply that now the struggle has once again become what it was in the 19th Century: highly ideological...