Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presidential election concerns not only moved universities to action, but the Reagan administration as well. Ending seven years of bitter battles with universities on Capitol Hill, Secretary Bennett announced over the summer that the administration was abandoning its attempts to drastically reduce funding for crucial financial aid programs. The Administration then submitted a budget in February calling for major increases in education funding and most types of student...
...Neill describes battles over issues such as housing as "surface tensions." She says community criticism is often particularly bitter because the University's high academic standing encourages them to apply inordinate standards...
...prompted comparisons with such old-fashioned leading men as Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon? "A tremendous sense of timing and great believability," says Larry Brezner, producer of The 'Burbs, the movie Hanks is now shooting. "He picks out the character and stays with it until the bitter end. Tom's better at acting funny than funny acting. He's an actor first and a comedian second...
COVER: Frustration with the war on drugs kicks off a bitter debate about legalization...
...that caused Joyce to fall into disfavor with his staff. Soon after becoming news president, for instance, Joyce tried unsuccessfully to move Sandy Socolow, the respected former executive producer of the CBS Evening News, from the London bureau to Tel Aviv. The attempt, which Socolow balked at, "left a bitter taste" with staffers, who saw it as "an effort to squeeze out of CBS News a respected veteran whose principal sin was a close friendship with Walter Cronkite." Joyce, typically, describes the incident in a short paragraph and gives no inkling of its repercussions...