Word: bitter
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...which Gephardt, a likely challenger for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination, has a lot at stake. Not too long ago, Gephardt was engaged in some bitter policy clashes with both Clinton and Vice President Gore. But that was pre-Monica. Gephardt has spent the past seven months suppressing his own Oval Office ambitions in order to defend its current occupant. Every two weeks since April he has convened a meeting in his office with Conyers, Frank, Berman and top staff members to talk about the Lewinsky scandal, the timing of a report from Starr and its probable impact on Democrats...
...year later, a lifetime's worth of family tragedies (plus several roommate conflicts) left me bitter and exhausted. The last thing I wanted to do was have to deal with people, much less perform community service, but anything was better than going home. So I applied to be the Philip Brooks House (PBH) summer receptionist, and thankfully received the job. It was basically a secretary's position and ranged from calming down campers' irate parents on the phone to fighting daily with the 200-year-old fax machine. While I met an endless number of truly amazing people, developed...
...done?" Leaving that question hanging in the air, Amblad, Siemens and Shapiro stare at the audience for a good while before leaving the stage, and thus ending the play. To be smacked in the face with such despondency--and the proof that it is unfortunately universal--leaves a bitter taste at the end of the otherwise absurdly delightful Slavs!. But what is truly frightening is the fact that, out of the entire production, the only part comprised of reality--the reality that the audience members have to face when they get up and leave the theater--is the also...
...Clinton that's a bitter pill. He is, after all, a President who has long communed with the biographies of his predecessors--F.D.R. and Abe Lincoln in the early days of his Administration, when greatness still seemed possible; Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes more recently, as the truth set in. He once asked his adviser Dick Morris to rank him among the Presidents ("You are right on the cusp of making third tier," the consultant replied). And early this year, buoyed by his balanced-budget agreement with Congress and the success of welfare reform, he began trying...
...billion in lost profits the strike has cost it. Workers will get plenty of overtime and GM will be churning out cars once again. But after that rush subsides, the world's largest carmaker will face the same problems it had before: declining market share, bloated payrolls and a bitter, distrustful union that will fight changes every step of the way. The company's future certainly looks bleak to investors: As details of the settlement emerged Wednesday morning, GM stock slipped...