Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial-happy public that has grown accustomed to tuning in to CNN or Court TV for its daily courtroom fix, Howard's decision must have been a bitter blow. But Howard isn't the only judge in the 47 states that permit courtroom cameras who has been spooked by the Simpson case. Superior Court Judge Lawrence Antolini, who is currently presiding over the California trial of the accused murderer of Polly Klaas, has imposed a gag order on lawyers and restricted TV coverage to the first five minutes of each court day. Last week he vowed, "Nothing like...
Neither McCain nor Webb had anything to do with Iran-contra. Webb, another true battlefield hero (Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts), was no hot dog but rather, in many ways, the smartest and best of the bunch. After the typically bitter homecoming from the war, he forged a career as a novelist, writing the best battlefield novel of Vietnam, Fields of Fire. During the Reagan Administration, he had a brief and stormy tenure as Secretary of the Navy...
...this, since none of their alternatives are very good. But this latest round of attacks by the Serbs should force their hand." If the U.N. does decide to leave, Nelan notes, a decision will have to be made quickly in order to complete the long withdrawal process before the bitter Bosnian winter sets in. Meanwhile in Srebrenica, over 30,000 civilians began their evacuation to Bosnian government held territory 30 miles away. Women and children were moved first, while in an ominous move, Serb soldiers detained males over 16 to weed out alleged "war criminals...
...them resented him as a man who reaped the glory for work that had been pioneered by less celebrated scientists all around the world. By 1962 Dr. Albert Sabin's oral vaccine, derived from live viruses, had become the preferred method of inoculation in the U.S., and Sabin was bitter about Salk's earlier triumph. Just a few years before his own death in 1993 Sabin claimed that "Salk didn't discover anything." Salk himself was often uncomfortable with the fuss made over him. He made a point of crediting others and tried to discourage use of the term "Salk...
Just days afternegotiating a truce in a bitter trade war with Japan over autos, the Clinton Administration has launched a major investigation into charges by Kodak that Japan is using unfair trade practices to strangle its sales there. "It is critical that U.S. firms achieve full access to Japan's market, a market roughly comparable in size to that of the United States," Trade Representative Mickey Kantor said today. Kodak has exhaustively documented its allegations that Japanese film giant Fuji owns or controls most of the film distribution networks in Japan and has limited Kodak to a market share...