Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though their concessions were painfully apt, neither Kim backed away from charges that Roh won by cheating. Kim Dae Jung, who finished third with 27% of the vote, seemed especially bitter: "It's utterly incomprehensible that I, who was able to mobilize millions of people at my campaign rallies, should have been defeated." A more conciliatory Kim Young Sam, who drew 28%, said his party would work with Roh to revise laws for National Assembly elections. The offer seemed aimed at repairing Kim's credibility as an effective political force. Said Lee Chul, an opposition National Assembly member...
...call long distance and to watch for red-tag sales at the PX. "We used to say, 'Come to Europe and broaden your horizons,' " says Major Dennis Pinkham, a public-affairs officer at European Command. "Now that word is out that things are tough, that's kind of a bitter pill to swallow." With many economists predicting even harder times ahead for the shrunken dollar, the pill is most easily washed down with cut-rate beer in the barracks...
...match was just the latest installment in the bitter rivalry between the "two Ks," as the competitors are known. The two are a study in chess contrasts. The athletic Kasparov favors flamboyant attacks and unusual defenses. Karpov, on the other hand, plays the game as though he were dissecting a microchip. In his newly published autobiography, Child of Change, Kasparov claims that he is a living example of the new Soviet glasnost and Karpov is a hidebound apparatchik. Karpov, who became champion by default after Bobby Fischer gave up the crown in 1975, has dismissed these charges as merely "part...
...kept abreast of agricultural conditions through an "early warning system" that included satellite surveillance of farming areas. Months ago, at the first sign that the rains might fail, the agencies acted. One of the first nations to dispatch aid was the U.S., whose Agency for International Development is still bitter over charges that it did not do enough during the last crisis...
...Jamaican parents, Burke had never married but had fathered seven children by four women. After his dismissal, he turned moody and violent. He had held Camacho and her six-year-old daughter at gunpoint on a forced six-hour auto drive the previous Friday, and he seemed particularly bitter toward the boss who fired him: Raymond Thomson, 48, the USAir customer-service manager in Los Angeles. Thomson commuted regularly by air from his Tiburon home in San Francisco...