Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congratulate the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) for hashing out a three-year labor agreement, after several months of negotiations. The accord represents a victory for compromise, coming much more quickly and with far less acrimony than the bitter negotiations on the last contract...
Even if Bosnia's division into rough halves seems to be accepted, there is still bitter disagreement over what specific areas will be allotted to each side. The peace plan the U.S. has been putting together suggests, for example, that the Bosnian government trade Gorazde, its sole, isolated enclave in the east, for control over all of the capital city of Sarajevo. The Bosnians insist they will never surrender Gorazde, and the Serbs, for their part, demand both Gorazde and a portion of the capital for their republic...
...debut cover story, on Bosnia, the task for Wallis and chief of research Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, who co-wrote the story, was to clarify the bitter historic roots of the struggle. "Adults have trouble understanding Bosnia," says Wallis. "Try explaining it to a nine-year...
...Whiting told why he was bitter enough to risk his neck. He is convinced--without any real evidence--that the French used the Foreign Legion troops on Mururoa as nuclear guinea pigs. They were a labor force, reinforcing the island's coral with concrete and rebuilding roads that buckled after bomb tests. But the legionnaires worked in areas contaminated by radiation, Whiting insisted. Someone not French had to clean up debris after explosions. Blood and urine samples were taken weekly, but no results were revealed. He was beaten up, he said, for asking a single question about the effectiveness...
...Both sides remembered, and wanted to avoid repeating, the bitter two-year standoff over the previous contract...