Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past several months, readers and publishers have been mourning the end of the cold war. Fine for the future of mankind, of course, but it means curtains for that sturdy subindustry, the espionage thriller. Goodbye to the Berlin Wall? A bitter thought. And what of double agents? No one still believes their entrapments occurring in the Middle East, where messages are not coded but exploded...
More than 500 gangs, with some 80,000 known members, infest Los Angeles County. The best known are the Bloods and the Crips, the two largest, predominantly black gangs, and the most bitter of rivals. Bloods and Crips break down into small neighborhood sets, and it is not uncommon for one Crip group to fight another Crip group up the street, for Blood to fight Blood. There were 462 gang-related murders in 1988, 107 of them in South Central, a 43-sq.-mi. stretch of ghetto with a population of 500,000. Though the murder rate does not approach...
...place after the election of Gorbachev." Moreover, notes Jane Ellis of England's Keston College, Filaret's election would have sent "the strongest possible anti-Catholic signal to the Vatican" just six months after Gorbachev visited the Pope. The Kiev prelate's hostility to Rome has greatly complicated the bitter fight in the western Ukraine over Catholics' seizing churches that Stalin handed to the Orthodox...
...owned more than 2% of HBJ's stock. This lack of control came to haunt him after he expanded the firm too rapidly in the 1980s. When the company's stock sank in early 1987, British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell launched a hostile takeover bid. In a long and bitter fight, Jovanovich prevailed by recapitalizing HBJ with nearly $3 billion in debt, a large chunk of it in junk bonds. Maxwell, who called Jovanovich "a dumb Croat coal miner" who "killed" the company, has offered to buy some assets. "Maxwell is twisting the knife, and I think it really hurts...
...parliament, he threw himself into a few weeks of campaigning before the vote took place. He strode the corridors of the Grand Kremlin Palace, buttonholing Deputies and urging them to vote for "unity." Translation: elect anybody but Yeltsin. He listened to campaign speeches and even gave one, a bitter blast in which he accused Yeltsin of "trying to excommunicate Russia from socialism." Yeltsin's intention to grant local district councils the authority to override a republic's laws could carry the theory of sovereignty to the point of absurdity and "lead to anarchy," Gorbachev warned...