Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First there was a bitter exchange of words between the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and benefits task force leader Provost Jerry R. Green over the union's role in determining changes...
...think Jeffrey should have been given anything he asked for, based on his mountain of accomplishments at Disney," says Steven Spielberg, who is co- owner with Katzenberg of Dive, the scalding-hot new Century City eatery. ! "But I don't think he's feeling bitter about it. He's looking forward to an exciting future...
Other foes are mobilizing. After receiving the report, a group of 18 Southern bishops conferred in Dallas and sent out a sharp-edged declaration reaffirming church opposition to nonmarital and same-sex relations. By last week, a total of 40 bishops (out of 275) had endorsed the declaration. The bitter fight ahead was presaged in a severe critique by the Rev. Stephen Noll, academic dean at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. "Many conscientious Episcopalians," he wrote, "feel they cannot stay in a church which officially denies one of the moral essentials of the faith...
...Jones and Reed were sentenced to prison; the other youth was released because he is a juvenile. Why did they do it? "There was no reason," says Calvin. "I'm just sorry I didn't do more to stop it." Perhaps it was just another attempt to change the bitter reality of Lake Providence...
...trouble in Rwanda started last October when a violent civil war left between a violent civil war left between 100,000 and 500,000 civilians dead. Members of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) overthrew the mainly Hutu civil government and militia in three months of bitter fighting. During the last few weeks of fighting the Tutsi rebels drove the Hutu army west (towards Zaire), pushing an estimated 1.75 million Rwandan refugees ahead of them. The exiled Hutu Government fled into the French controlled safe zone in southwestern Rwanda. From this haven, the deposed Hutu leaders broadcast messages...