Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...based company that once made clothes under a license from Guess. A year later Saranow, again relying on information supplied by Guess, got IRS officials in New York City to begin a criminal case against Jordache. At the time, Jordache's founders, the Nakash brothers, were embroiled in a bitter dispute with the Marciano brothers, who founded Guess, that is still being contested in the courts...
...wish I could rewrite the past, but unfortunately I can't," said Mack, probably the most influential staffer on Capitol Hill. Insisted Speaker Wright, who loses his right-hand man as he faces a bitter survival struggle over his ethics problems: "I was willing to give this young man another chance, and I have never had occasion to regret...
...penchant of mainline leaders for embracing progressive causes has sparked bitter internal disputes, especially over homosexuality and women's rights. The Rev. H. Boone Porter, editor of the Living Church, an Episcopal weekly, complains that "national officials have taken positions which, frankly, the rest of us do not understand." There are also continual squabbles over the political stands by clergy who sound like McGovern-Mondale Democrats while lay members are largely Reagan-Bush Republicans. Several denominations have also lost members through conservative schisms...
...tactical missiles were ever fired in anger, they would raise mushroom clouds over German territory and probably kill more local civilians than foreign invaders. If, on the other hand, the missiles were not fired, they would become irresistible targets for devastating pre-emptive strikes by the enemy. Hence the bitter saying in Bonn, "The shorter the range, the deader the German...
...those funds, which are legally owed to Panama. Moreover, under the terms of the canal treaty, the American administrator of the PCC must be replaced by a Panamanian by January 1990. The U.S. Senate will have to approve the candidate, and if he is closely linked to Noriega, a bitter fight is certain...