Word: bitter
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...pollworkers needed for election day have been recruited but not trained. And even though there are new measures to reduce fraud, including transparent ballot boxes and a new system to count and transmit results, the process may be undermined by inadequate surveillance, logistical trouble and bitter local political rivalries...
...supporters, an insignificant minority of Spaniards, do not play any role in current Spanish politics. You included with your story a photo of supporters of the nationalistic Falange party that was captioned "Hate Wave." Why? There isn't any wave of hate in Spain. David J. Santos Madrid Bitter Harvest Simon Robinson's article "The Farm Fight" [Nov. 28] pointed out a real problem faced by developing countries: the World Trade Organization's inability to persuade the U.S. and European countries to curb their trade-distorting agricultural subsidies. We used to think that the problems of underdeveloped countries could...
...even during a decade of often bitter gender conflict, Smith says she “found people eager to support me and what I was doing...
...When Saddam Hussein was in power, he suppressed most resistance through sheer force and an aggressive, overwhelming response to any uprising. I'm sure that the Kurds and the Shi'ite majority, with the support of the U.S., could deal with the Fallujah insurgents. Sometimes the antidote is a bitter pill to swallow. David Hicks Duluth, Georgia, U.S. God and Science while I applaud Nobel-prizewinning physicist Eric Cornell's evenhanded call for moderation in the intelligent-design debate [Nov. 14], I long to see an article that examines the causality for the controversy and suggests how it might...
...condemning its faults; endorsement and acknowledgement are very different things. Symbolically, Harvard’s refusal to allow recruiters a place on campus is more than protest towards a particular policy. It is a thirty-six year long condemnation the military’s purpose, an invocation of the bitter memory of Vietnam...