Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rights to fade into the background of national debate. Meanwhile it has quietly appointed scores of conservative judges to the Federal Courts and to the Supreme Court. Only now, after seven years of relative quiet on the civil rights front, are these appointments taking their toll--giving America a bitter taste of the Reagan legacy...
Babbitt's "stand-up campaign" dramatized the fact that while none of us want reduced services or higher taxes, neither do we want high deficits bequeathed to our children. Our desire for a gain-no pain cure has left us looking like a whiny child, unwilling to swallow the bitter, restorative fiscal medicine. We have entrusted the economic health of the nation to Dr. Feelgood and have demonstrated a willingness to forgive deception and punish forthrightness...
...expected, however, those for whom the change comes too late are somewhat bitter. Aside from disappointing Ec 1011's graduates--who naturally wish that future generations should endure the same torture--the decision to remove the rigorous second year theory class is counterproductive to the goal of teaching Economics...
...issue of whether to invest in firms operating in South Africa offers the ultimate example of the difficulties of trying to demonstrate a serious concern for moral standards. The problems of South Africa are far too tragic and inflammatory to escape bitter controversy, whatever a university decides to do. Student activists will claim that officials who oppose total divestment are insensitive to the injustices of apartheid, while conservative critics insist that selling stock is only an empty and expensive gesture to appease irresponsible radicals. In this atmosphere, divestment can easily acquire such emotional, symbolic importance that is difficult to examine...
...voting by the Senate began after the prosecutor, Paul Eckstein, beseeched the lawmakers to convict and removeMecham and "bring down the curtain on thisprolonged, embarassing and bitter tragedy...