Word: bitterly
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Misleading Margin. The biggest battle came with the Commons debate on the plan, which the Prime Minister had announced the week before, to freeze prices, wages and dividends while drastically squeezing inflation out of the economy by cutting government spending and raising taxes. Conservative Leader Ted Heath led a bitter, sometimes brilliant attack in Commons on Wilson's handling of the economic crisis. The government survived the no-confidence motion by a 79-vote margin...
Demanding that their in-station hours be cut from 56 to 50 a week, 278 of Kansas City's firemen last month got around state laws by playing sick for four days; in so doing they defied a court injunction and created a wrangle so bitter that National Guardsmen were sent to guard firehouses. In Atlanta, 500 of 726 firemen quit their own union, the International Association of Fire Fighters, which bars strikes, then walked out for 21 days despite a court back-to-work order...
Italians were equally bitter when their highly rated team was knocked out of the race by the tournament's lowest-rated contenders, the North Koreans. Rome's Corriere Dello Sport ran a one-word headline: SHAME! In Parliament, a neo-Fascist deputy pointed to Italy's defeat as the sign that a new Duce was needed to rescue the nation's fading honor...
...this comes as bitter medicine to Erhard, but he has little choice. The cost of living went up 4.5% during the twelve months that ended in April. Spending by government, both federal and state, was bloated by 12% in 1965, much more than the still substantial growth of 8.4% in the gross national product. Erhard himself has been booed by coal miners in the Ruhr, whose industry is threatened by the Europe-wide revolution in oil, natural gas and atomic energy. The coal malaise has spread to steel-partly because the steel companies themselves produce 40% of West German coal...
...deal that in 1961, when another French firm started underselling Consten with Grundig wares bought from German wholesalers, outraged Consten officials charged it with unfair practices in a French court-to their later chagrin. Asked for an opinion on the case, the EEC in Brussels brushed aside bitter German protests, decided that the Grundig-Consten deal created "a monopoly within French territory" in violation of Common Market free-trade accords. The Market's court of justice in Luxembourg thereupon ruled the exclusive dealership illegal...