Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue of teaching kids about sex remains politically explosive. This week the results are expected to be announced in an unusually bitter election for New York City community school boards in which the religious right joined with the Catholic Church to try to elect more tradition-minded representatives. Earlier this year, the system's highly regarded Chancellor Joseph Fernandez was ousted largely because of his effort to expand condom distribution and teach children about gay life-styles. The New York City Board of Education last week chose as its new president a conservative Queens mother who had cast the deciding...
Americans know what a war in the desert is like. Many remember a bitter conflict in the jungle. Now they must imagine one in the mountains...
Instead, Harvard was left with the bitter taste of a frustrating loss to a team that it should have beaten...
...that the story must resolve is how long it takes Will to gather his meager wits and clear out. Loosely related subplots, thrown in to keep matters churning, deal with the efforts of a couple of con men to get rich in the cereal business and of Kellogg's bitter adopted son to take well-justified vengeance on the great doctor...
...wrangle is bitter and shows no sign of resolution. The antis say the whole project has been needlessly rushed, leaving insufficient time for proper inspection of the condition of the works, for restoration and for prepping them to endure the stress of travel. "I believe that the whole schedule was worked around the National Gallery having an open date," says James Beck, an art-history professor at Columbia University who runs a group called ArtWatch International, formed in 1992 to monitor unwise treatment and abusive restoration of works of art of world significance. "It was really a kind of tragic...