Word: bitter
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...challenger to Berlusconi four years ago, outraged allies in the Left Democratic party by backing the Italian bishops' call for voters to abstain from this week's referendum on assisted fertility and stem-cell research. But noisy squabbles among coalition partners over policy mask divisions that are even more bitter: over who will spearhead the election campaign. Doubts have grown over the past month about the leadership of Romano Prodi, 67, the former President of the European Commission chosen last year to take on Berlusconi. The recent slump in the E.U.'s popularity is bad news for Prodi, who enthusiastically...
...Swiss Open Up After the E.U. constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch, and another bitter scrap broke out over the E.U. budget, Brussels won a quiet sign of support last week from an unlikely corner. In a referendum, 55% of Swiss voters approved joining the E.U.-run Schengen area, which lifts internal border checks. Integration doesn't come easy to the Swiss. Voters declined membership of the European Economic Area, a staging post to full E.U. membership, in 1992; a poll in 2001 shelved the possibility of membership talks even though around two-thirds of the country...
...Your campus was roiled by a bitter, divisive controversy in the last semester of your undergraduate years,” he says. “The book is my cheerful and constructive response to all the turbulence: Mahalia Mouse, you see, studies science...
Former Fletcher University Professor West’s departure for Princeton in 2002 after a bitter public dispute with University President Lawrence H. Summers heralded the end of the Af Am “dream team.” That same year, Appiah, the former Carswell professor of African American studies, also went to Princeton, citing personal reasons...
...January of 1980, over 800 students and Cambridge residents gathered outside Widener Library in the bitter cold to express opposition to the legislation that would reinstate draft registration...