Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fears that shipments to the U.S. would be increasingly constricted by trade barriers led Mulroney to propose a free-trade treaty to Reagan during the second "shamrock summit," which took place last year. Reagan, an avowed free trader, embraced the idea. But even as negotiations proceeded, bitter disputes arose. In one case, the Administration bowed to pressure from U.S. lumber companies by slapping a 35% tariff on Canadian cedar shakes and shingles...
...political front, however, Salinas' success may depend on how quickly he distinguishes himself from his predecessors. While charges of ballot fraud, patronage and corruption have long dogged the P.R.I., the allegations are growing dangerously heated. Last year the situation turned particularly bitter after closely contested mayoral elections in the northern state of Chihuahua, a stronghold of the conservative National Action Party, the largest of the eight opposition parties. Afterward a P.R.I. official conceded, "We may have won the elections, but we have lost the people...
More than money is the goal of the walk, organizers said. Kramer said the march will be "symbolic" of the Afghani "women and children who had to walk through the bitter cold mountain passes, even after being injured, to get where it's safe...
Despite Sunday's rain and yesterday's bitter cold weather, the Square was crowded with over 6500 enthusiastic festival participants from the Harvard-Cambridge community as well as other parts of the Northeastern seaboard...
...Pentagon acknowledged that it has been engaged in a yearlong struggle with the Commerce Department over Transnautic's $3 million order for one of IBM's powerful mainframe computer systems, called the Model 4381. The Commerce Department finally approved the sale over the Pentagon's bitter objections...