Word: bitter
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...instance, there was the bitter strike of Hollywood screenwriters, partly over the studios' insistence that the writers accept a rollback of the rerun payments called residuals. Studio executives were saying writers had to make some sacrifices in the leaner economic conditions the industry was facing. Then, in an article in the New Yorker, Joan Didion pointed out that the total received in residuals by all 9,000 members of the Writers Guild was $58 million and that Eisner's 1987 compensation was an estimated $63 million...
...bitter Siberian winter approaches, millions of wild birds heading across the Urals toward Africa stop off at the protected wetlands site at Lake Manyas in Asian Turkey. That may explain why, not far away at a farm in Kiziksa, 1,700 turkeys died this month. Scientists confirmed they were infected with H5N1, the avian influenza strain responsible for 60 human deaths in Asia since 2003. Experts now fear the virus is inexorably winging its way toward Europe. Turkish authorities quickly imposed a quarantine around the infected farm, culling 8,600 birds. But another H5N1 outbreak hit Romania's Danube delta...
...about, were highly qualified individuals that had been passed over," Dobson says. "What Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list and they would not allow their names to be considered, because the process has become so vicious and so vitriolic and so bitter, that they didn't want to subject themselves or the members of their families...
...Goodbye to Stale Wines? One in 10 bottles of wine is tainted?or "corked," in the oenophile's argot?making it smell musty and taste bitter. Now French scientists have come up with a kit called Dream Taste. You dip a copolymer shaped like a bunch of grapes into the wine, where it absorbs the flavor-spoiling molecules...
...perfect time. Awareness of coffee in America is at an all-time high. The purpose is to interact with the consumer and get them to know our brand. It's a new marketing approach. Here in America, espresso is often over-roasted, which is why it tastes bitter. We want to globalize espresso and teach consumers to drink it the preferred...