Word: bitter
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...their power and wealth are so great, their control of the economy so pervasive and their rivalries so bitter that Yeltsin is trying to bring them to heel, declaring that the state is going to again assume more control of the economy. Yeltsin, whose re-election campaign was generously funded by the new oligarchs, warned that he would not tolerate "any effort by businessmen and bankers to exert pressure on the government." Yeltsin's words echoed those of Anatoli Chubais, his abrasive First Deputy Premier, who said recently that Russia could not allow "two or three or five major financial...
...declarations by Yeltsin and Chubais signaled the start of a bitter and potentially crucial power struggle between the government's young Vice Premiers, Chubais and Boris Nemtsov, on the one hand, and several of the most powerful oligarchs on the other. While Yeltsin instructed both sides in what is now known as the bankers' war to cool it, the war has instead heated up. Last week came news that one of the warring oligarchs had been questioned by Interior Ministry investigators and that one of his Russian-American associates had had his Russian visa confiscated as he left Moscow...
...tiny Hoboken indie, Bar/None Records, to put out her latest material. This release comes at a time of conflict for the artist. Though recording and mixing for her upcoming full-length, God's Foot, has been complete for months, the album is stuck in limbo, caught in a bitter copyright war between Mammoth and Atlantic...
...This bitter truth was brought home for Dartboard while heading to New York in honor of Rosh Hashannah, the first of two holidays focused on repentance. Our formerly Israeli cab driver had a lovely chat with us about attending religious services for the holiday. Once at Logan Airport, our cabbie informed us of a curious new tradition--charging the passenger for the cabbie's ride back alone to Cambridge. Dartboard had no time to quibble; we suffered our rip-off quietly...
...records aside, the final score left a bitter taste in the wideout's mouth. "The record is nice," Skelton said. "But the game is the most important thing...