Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emotional and friendship aspects" began to develop. They talked about their childhoods, and Clinton told her she made him feel young again; Lewinsky dreamed of being by his side full time after his presidency. They exchanged 48 gifts and had some 50 phone conversations with each other--warm chats, bitter arguments and some 17 late-night phone-sex sessions that Lewinsky says Clinton initiated. Monica sent him an erotic postcard, with a note detailing her ideas about education reform...
...Clinton fights it out this time to the bitter end, even if that means enduring an impeachment trial in the Senate, one reason will simply be his beliefs that impeachment is a punishment out of all proportion to the underlying offenses and that a majority of Americans will agree. But matters of principle aside, it's still Clinton's personal psychology that makes surrender a truly unlikely option. To begin with, crisis mobilizes him, as his bounce back after the '94 elections shows. And even in small matters he cannot bear to be bested. As Governor of Arkansas...
...doing the administration?s business -- trying to squeeze IMF funding out of the House as soon as possible. Indeed, both men ?- who these days are not-so-laughingly deemed the last two viable leaders in the economic world -? remain convinced, even as the contagion continues to spread, that their bitter-pill regimen is the only way to go, not only to cure today?s ills but to immunize economies against tomorrow?s tremblings. House members, as always, nodded politely, but two moments Wednesday seemed to capture perfectly the persistent understanding gap between economists and politicians. One was when a member...
...commitments represent a big improvement over the handling of the city's last major project--the Bradley Center Arena, where the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team plays. When the arena was built 12 years ago, the absence of minority contractors and employees sparked a bitter feud. "No black folks or other people of color got any of that," fumes city alderman Fred Gordon, who feels that even today, minority firms often get just "table scraps...
...homeless woman to walk around the Getty Center in Los Angeles with a sign saying LORRAINE BY TONY KAYE and call it art isn't going to take the re-editing of his first film, American History X, lightly. And indeed, Kaye, a British commercials director, is waging a bitter but colorful battle against New Line Cinema, taking out cryptically worded full-page ads in trade magazines imploring, among others, stars ED NORTON and EDDIE FURLONG to help him. Kaye's beef: despite the fact that he has spent more than $1 million of his own money...