Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many mid-career women blame the movement for not knowing and for emphasizing the wrong issues. The ERA and lesbian rights, while noble causes, seemed to have garnered more attention than the pressing need for child care and more flexible work schedules. The bitterest complaints come from the growing ranks of women who have reached 40 and find themselves childless, having put their careers first. Is it fair that 90% of male executives 40 and under are fathers but only 35% of their female counterparts have children? "Our generation was the human sacrifice," says Elizabeth Mehren, 42, a feature writer...
Though that progress was slight, the bombers were evidently determined to destroy it. Many Lebanese speculated that General Michel Aoun, the bitterest foe of the Arab League peace plan and the commander of fanatically loyal Christian forces in East Beirut, was behind the killing. Aoun has been outraged that the plan permits 40,000 Syrian troops to remain indefinitely in Lebanon. He had pronounced Moawad's election void and vowed to throw out the Syrians. Aoun is too weak to achieve that goal but was strong enough to cause havoc. Before the assassination, thousands of his mostly youthful supporters crowded...
...undefeated heavyweights cleaned up in New Haven, Conn., the hometown of their bitterest rivals. But it just wasn't the same without Yale...
...gained control of the appointment process many centuries ago, bishops were elected by the local clergy and laity. A vestige of the older practice remains in a number of European cities, where panels of leading clergymen, known as cathedral chapters, still have an important role in choosing bishops. The bitterest recent conflicts have involved disagreements between these bodies and the Vatican...
...steroids. Lewis seemed to be headed for another gold in the 200 meters, but was inched out at the tape by his teammate and friend Joe DeLoach. "Now the world knows how well Joe is running," Lewis said after the race. "At the end, he had more strength." The bitterest frustration, however, came when the anchor man on the U.S. B team, running in a heat for the 4 X 100-meter relay, took possession of the baton outside the designated zone. That meant disqualification, preventing the regular U.S. squad, which Lewis would have anchored, from competing in the finals...