Word: bitter
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...Tokyo too Clinton did some adroit and necessary fence mending. Earlier he had emphasized bitter confrontations about trade even more than the U.S.-Japanese security alliance. Last week he switched just about all the way back. He announced that the U.S. would keep its 100,000 troops in the Pacific to help guarantee stability. For its part, Japan has agreed to provide more help--possibly with food, fuel and the use of its own bases--to the 47,000 U.S. troops there...
What do I fear about Peres?" concerned about answering at all, Yitzhak Rabin mulled the question carefully. This was in the mid-1980s, and Rabin was hardly a disinterested observer. He and Shimon Peres had been bitter Labor Party rivals throughout their careers. Both men were still angling to lead Israel, and Rabin was reluctant to offend needlessly. "O.K.," he finally said, "but this is for later. You'll talk to me first...
Working together does not mean having a bitter attitude towards those students who prefer not to get involved in the political debates and battles of their countries. Perhaps if Santini's agenda was not provoked by a readiness to "combat" and teaching "the man not to mess with us" but instead with an eagerness and a willingness to hear what other Puerto Ricans on campus are feeling, or what they have on their agendas than maybe we could be more "prepared to make history...
That's O.K., he responds. "Forget me; I don't matter." Except that during the interview, he repeatedly undercuts that assertion. He expresses mild resentment about doing all the "drudge work" of creating the Reform Party while others wait to take advantage of his handiwork. And he is openly bitter at personal attacks, like Republican editor William Kristol's suggestion that he is "not an entirely sane individual." Complains Perot: "Rather than solve problems, they want to destroy anybody who gets in their...
...changes. After a bit of confusion over how to pay his taxes and what's considered a gift from a lobbyist, former Speaker of the House Charles Flaherty, a staunch Cambridge Democrat, said he will not run for re-election. In the wake of his departure, there was a bitter battle for Flaherty's position. Through a coalition of moderate Democrats and Republicans Thomas M. Finneran (D-Boston) was able to prevail over a more traditional Democratic with a strong backing...