Word: bitter
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...Carl Icahn, Wilde's words may be painfully true. When Icahn learned last August that he had won his bitter battle to take over Trans World Airlines, the New York financier and renowned corporate raider put on a pilot's cap and jacket and pranced around his office. "We've got ourselves an airline," he exulted...
...World War II and served as President of the Bundestag from 1954 to 1969; of a stroke; in Bonn. Imprisoned by the Nazis for his involvement in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Gerstenmaier in the 1950s vigorously supported reconciliation with Israel and negotiated reparation payments to help ease bitter feelings...
...time, the shadowy group promised to free the three Frenchmen if Paris secured the release of 17 Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for the 1983 bombing attacks on the U.S. and French embassies--a long-standing condition for freeing the U.S. hostages. While the Americans in captivity seemed bitter, the Frenchmen sounded desperate. Kauffmann told his family, "It is horrible to say perhaps I will never see you again, but it is the truth." Diplomat Marcel Fontaine warned, "I cannot stand anymore." In Paris, Kauffmann's wife Joelle called on French officials to "show proof they are capable...
What gave Icahn's offer most of its credibility, though, was his surprising success at TWA. The New York City-born businessman took the helm of the floundering carrier 14 months ago after a bitter takeover battle. Few thought Icahn would ever be able to turn around the airline, which lost $193 million in 1985 and $257 million in the first half of this year. But after a series of hard-nosed measures, including victory in a three-month strike by TWA's 6,500 flight attendants, Icahn was able to announce earnings of $72 million for the third quarter...
Sarah (Marlee Matlin) is not officially a student. She is a graduate who has her own bitter reasons for staying on campus, doing menial work, instead of rejoining the world. If anything, the abuses she once suffered make her more vulnerable and touching. Yet she never seems pathetic, not as played by Matlin, who is a beautiful young woman and an actress of awesome gifts. Spotted playing a minor role in a Chicago revival of the play, she has an unusual talent for concentrating her emotions--and an audience's--in her signing. But there is something more here...