Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Writing about Sinatra and Previn, who was out touring for most of their marriage, Farrow is fairly mild, even philosophical. With Allen she is bitter and exacting. Minor flaws are recorded, right down to his carefully assembled casual look in clothes. Allen was fastidious. When her sister came around in a pink T shirt, he was scornful. From the start, Farrow was frustrated by his indifference to her ever growing family. Why did she keep adopting? She traces the inspiration to her son Moses, the first child she took in who was afflicted (with cerebral palsy). He was a gentle...
...school. Yes, it's true that 2 out of 4 dropped out, but what about the 81 men who also quit out of a class of 581? And while most "knobs" drop out during the first few weeks of the semester, these women hung in there until the bitter end. The two remaining women cadets continue to do well at the Citadel. After reading about the vicious hazing, which supposedly builds character but instead seems to keep these students at a juvenile level, I can only ask, What company would want to fill its jobs with men who set people...
...facts, consideration of the available 'options,' and application of logical decisions...Like no Defense Secretary before him, he has seized control of the Pentagon. Military leaders can offer advice, but McNamara makes the decisions...His love of computers, and his own computerlike mind, have led to the bitter quip that IBM really stands for 'I, Bob McNamara...
DETROIT: In what is largely a procedural move to force management's hand in a bitter 19-month old strike, Detroit's six striking newspaper-employee unions presented return-to-work offers to Detroit Newspapers on Monday. The unions said they would return to work if management would agree to rehire all the strikers, something that the company has already said it will not do. Unions hope that a refusal of their offer will help make their case before the National Labor Relations Board that Detroit Newspapers, which manages the joint business and production operations for The Detroit News...
...approved. A Cuban spokesman said the regime will continue to analyze the other applications and will make decisions "when the Cuban government considers it opportune." The news organizations cleared a major U.S. hurdle last week when Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee and a bitter foe of the Castro regime, signed off on the idea in a letter to President Clinton. According to the letter, Helms believes that a CNN bureau in Cuba will hasten Fidel Castro's demise...