Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...testimony, much of it bitter, went this month before the Senate environment and public-works subcommittee on toxic substances. Dallas petroleum consultant Tom Latimer, 36, testified that he used the widely sold insecticide diazinon six years ago to control grubs eating grass roots at the same time that he was taking the drug Tagamet to control warts. Neither chemical came with a warning of dangerous interaction, but the impact of diazinon, an organophosphate that inhibits nerve action, was apparently magnified by the Tagamet. Today his eyesight remains severely damaged; he has constant headaches; his memory, concentration and mental acuity...
...future for the government, are keenly interested in negotiations. The President is showing signs of stress -- he needs to take pills to sleep -- but he still seems to think he can hold out. Says a U.S. government specialist on Ethiopia: "He's the type to hang on to the bitter...
...deserves the credit -- and a likely Nobel Prize -- for being the first to track down the AIDS virus? For more than seven years, that question has generated a transatlantic duel, during which accusations of mistakes became tainted with bitter murmurs about dishonesty, between rival scientists in France and the U.S. Now the mystery may have been solved. New evidence to be published later this month in the journal Science offers a simple explanation of how two laboratories came to claim credit for the same discovery...
...Seized by the U.S. government in 1942 for its links to Nazi Germany's I.G. Farben, infamous inventor of the poison gas used in Hitler's concentration camps, the company was owned by the feds for the next two decades. During the early 1980s, GAF fought a bitter two-year battle in boardrooms, courtrooms and newspaper ads against Heyman's ultimately victorious takeover effort. Since then, in the words of one analyst, "Heyman made a lot of money, and he made a lot of people a lot of money...
...need be. But as a fellow Texan, Baker would offer Bush little help on the G.O.P. ticket -- and he is not self-effacing enough for the second-banana role. Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole is out of the running because he and Bush still nurse bruises from their bitter fight for the Republican nomination. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp, the right wing's favorite for Vice President in 1988, annoys Bush with his long-winded expositions of conservative political theories. But even if these possibilities are excluded, Bush has plenty of prospects from which to choose...