Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just isn't enough," he says. "All we get is some flour, rice and oil. The children are sick all the time." He supplements the U.N. rations with grasses, mostly broadleaf weeds from surrounding hills that look a little like cabbage but, according to the children, taste much too bitter. They dip small pieces of bread into the unpalatable grass soup, eating only enough to stop their gnawing hunger...
...astronomy, size and intensity both contribute to a star's magnitude. For the York County Coast Star, an abundance of intensity makes up for the lack of size. The newspaper and its editor became personally embroiled in a number of fights, including a bitter battle with the town government which eventually resulted in a Star-backed ouster of the town manager...
...once said. Many people in their 20s believe baby boomers have treated the economy, the environment and even the institution of marriage the way a reckless driver treats a rental car. The Third Millennium may fail, but it's a signal that another generation -- angered by the deficit and bitter over retirees who got theirs while the getting was good -- is ready to take the wheel. Boomers may be in for a bumpy ride...
Perhaps the most serious problem, however, is artistic. Concert programs have changed relatively little in a century, and not at all in the past 30 or 40 years. New works are often presented as a bitter pill to be washed down with familiar symphonic staples. Conductors, meanwhile, too often treat the Central European classical repertoire as a kind of competition course, with each one eager to put his stamp on the Beethoven symphonies or the Stravinsky ballets and thus climb the career ladder. "When I was a student in New York, you could hear orchestras playing diverse repertoires," Leonard Slatkin...
...National Commission on AIDS completed four years of work with a bitter report charging that prejudice and political inertia have prevented the nation from making an adequate response to the epidemic. "I think a lot of people in America don't believe the roof is about to cave in on them," said one member...