Word: bittering
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After the bitter pill that was last year's failed run at the league title, the Tigers (16-11, 11-3, t-1st) have reloaded and are primed for another go at it. Coach Liz Feeley begins her fourth year with three returning starters, including the team's top two scorers, seniors Maggie Langlas and Kate Thirolf...
...confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising's death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no lesson here, no moral of tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment of the perpetrators. To be somehow equated with these monsters would be a bitter legacy indeed for Matthew Shepard...
...pretended to read the words out loud from the folder thrust into his hands. It was an awkward beginning in front of the national assembly for Abdurrahman Wahid, a stroke victim who last Wednesday became the first freely elected President of Indonesia. And it was a bitter denouement for Megawati Sukarnoputri, the presumed front runner who had been left sucking for air by a series of political maneuvers she hadn't even seen coming...
...that one of the premises, the idea that Tillie would create an science fair-winning set of marigolds which had been exposed to certain types of radiation, is somewhat implausible, the scenes of the play focus not on such plot-driving points, but on the interactions between Tillie's bitter, estranged mother (Stotland), Tillie and her sister Ruth (Jamie Smith...
...price controls. In addition to his probe into drug costs, the President wants to make prescription coverage part of Medicare, and pharmaceutical companies, fearing for their profit margins, are resisting what they see as an inexorable push toward federal price controls. A consortium of pharmaceutical companies recently launched a bitter ad campaign attacking the President?s plan, calling it "big government in our medicine cabinets...