Word: bitter
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...Procter & Gamble, the charges have been too bitter to swallow. In an angry response, the Cincinnati-based consumer products firm yanked its advertising, worth as much as $1 million a year, from the Boston station. "We felt very strongly that our integrity was being attacked, and we could not let that go unchallenged," said Don Tassone, a P&G spokesman. He noted that Folgers contains less than 2% Salvadoran beans. "In addition, and this is important to us, we are supported by our Government's policy," Tassone said. In a recent letter to the company, Under Secretary of State Robert...
...Toreros' one-through-six singles depth. But the Crimson's fourth, fifth and sixth seeds set their mentor's fears to rest. Harvard sophomores Jon Cardi, Derek Brown and Albert Chang each pulled out a three-set match--sending Toreros Chris Toomey, Kevin Bradley and Thomas Simonsen down to bitter defeats...
Deep-seated ethnic animosities pose a threat to stability as these inexperienced countries move toward competitive democracies. Many African leaders have long maintained that if multiple political parties were permitted, they would inevitably form along tribal lines, inviting bitter and perhaps bloody confrontations. The Ivory Coast is home to at least 60 different ethnicities; Zaire has 200. While this argument has often been overblown to justify repression, ethnic and tribal rivalries inevitably complicate the growth of democracy...
Certainly there is much bitter truth in Solzhenitsyn's complaints. I too have called attention to the West's lack of concerted action, its dangerous illusions, the factional gamesmanship, shortsightedness, selfishness and cowardice displayed by some of its politicians. Yet I believe that Western society is fundamentally healthy and dynamic, capable of meeting the challenges life continually brings...
...introduced in 1986 as a quick and easy way to fund tribal welfare programs. "It's a question of who is going to have jurisdiction and under what conditions" over every aspect of reservation life, says Ron LaFrance, acting director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University. A bitter power struggle between three competing tribal councils has been exacerbated by disagreements among a maze of U.S. and Canadian government agencies that oversee the reservation...