Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a long and often bitter battle between animal rights activists and Cambridge's vast scientific and research community, the city council this summer passed a ground-breaking ordinance to monitor the care of laboratory animals...
...years ago, Cambridge was the site of a City Council race that, while often bitter, was hardly revolutionary...
Alumni pro-divestment activists cheered when South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu won his bid for a seat on the 30-member Board of Overseers this June, but soon wondered if the election was just the sweet coating to a very bitter pill...
Early in December Harvard's announced plan to build a 200-room hotel on the Gulf station lot came under bitter attack from the members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who wanted an academic building on the site. After the faculty unanimously called on Harvard to "reconsider" the hotel plan, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence appointed a three-member committee to look into alternate uses, and the hotel project was temporarily suspended...
When the final product was released in June, the reviews were positive, if cautious. Most support staff said Rondeau and Dunlop had moved beyond the often bitter climate of labor relations over the past few years to produce a contract that would yield better benefits and salary for the University's clerical and technical workers...