Word: bitterly
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Hughes, cutting short a trip to the Middle East, jetted back to the state and imposed controls on withdrawals. By keeping the thrifts open, he managed to bring the blood pressure of depositors down a few points. Even so, the $1,000 limit sparked bitter complaints from small companies that needed to meet payrolls and from customers who need money for large purchases. A few thrifts affronted consumers with the final insult by offering to lend them money instead, at rates of about...
Distillers, however, are bitter that federal and state taxes are skewed to hit liquor harder than beer and wine, and they feel the liquor industry is taking the rap for teenage drunk drivers, most of whom, they believe, are blitzed on beer, not hard liquor. The industry is currently challenging the three TV networks, charging that they are violating the fairness doctrine. The networks said no to Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, which wanted to buy 30-second spots pointing out that 1 1/4 oz. of hard liquor contains no more alcohol than a 5-oz. glass of wine...
...composition of the cuts is not quite what Reagan had suggested. The President accepted a one-year freeze on Social Security benefits, which otherwise would go up 4% within the next year as an adjustment for inflation. That exposed him to bitter charges that he was violating a 1984 campaign pledge never to approve any cut in benefits. The President rather lamely replied at his farewell-to-Europe press conference in Lisbon that he had never intended to guarantee increases, but merely to protect the aged against reductions...
While the overdue welcome home overwhelmed most veterans with its warmth, the parade failed to move some who have been left bitter by years of public indifference. Ex-Marine Jerry White, 35, could not accept it as a thank-you. Said he: "It's more like a political convention or something." Army Veteran John-Paul Body, 36, took part only reluctantly, wary of "romanticizing the war." Afterward he dipped into the vocabulary of psychospiritualism to offer his appraisal: "It was more like an exorcism." Still, no matter how dark or ambiguous their emotions, few seemed to disagree with...
...Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, captured ten nominations, one for best musical. Joe Egg, a searing and yet raucously funny story about the parents of a hopelessly retarded child, was nominated for three acting awards and for best revival. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a bitter and explosive recollection of racial prejudice that unfolds during a recording-studio session for a 1920s blues band, won three nominations, including one for best play...