Word: bitter
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...real risk to a peaceful coexistence between the U.S. and Asia's rising powers is not?at least, not yet?Washington's passion for democracy. It is that economic growth has not abolished old political grievances. Japan and China remain rivals, with the bitter memories of the last century corroding a growing commercial relationship. Beijing obsesses over the fact that Taiwan is not within its jurisdiction. India and China eye each other warily over the Himalayas. And when North Korea collapses?as some day it will?South Korea, Japan and China might yet all find themselves drawn into a contest...
...Supreme Court's 4-3 decision to re-start the counting of votes during the 2000 election was reported without modifiers because it favored Al Gore. When the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to settle the election controversy in George Bush's favor, the papers described the justices as "bitterly divided." He cites a Washington Post story the day after the Florida decision as an example, saying the paper made "no reference to a close or bitter decision...
...amount of Americans injured in conflict," says Air Force Colonel Tyler Putnam, one of Landstuhl's trauma surgeons. "This is unlike anything we've ever experienced, or maybe will ever experience again." Few doubt that the evacuation system has saved soldiers' lives. But it was born out of a bitter failure - the Oct. 3, 1993 debacle in Somalia. There, 18 American soldiers died and some 80 were injured while pinned down in a hostile corner of the capital, Mogadishu, with no way out. Just two days earlier, a U.S. medical team had flown out of Somalia to Landstuhl with...
...home was not immediately tangible. Unable to win from India or Pakistan an agreement to halt participation in a natural-gas pipeline from Iran, a country that the U.S. would like to isolate, she repeatedly emphasized that Washington backs recent efforts by both nations to mend their 58-year bitter dispute over the divided region of Kashmir. After stops in Afghanistan and Tokyo, where she called for greater democracy across Asia, Rice moved on to Seoul before flying to Beijing, where the real work of the trip was waiting...
...sickeningly simplistic morality structure of the film, the two rich children serve as wholesome victims, while the three rough and bitter kids from the bad part of town are posed as the inevitably doomed youth that life forgot. When one of the hooligans, Mars (Ben Foster), begins to threaten Jennifer, we are informed that this “goth” character’s father’s abusive behavior left him an orphan, resulting in his disregard for human life...