Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnson, then, has made Steiner's vision a reality, but the chief may leave a department that is bitterly divided over charges of discrimination and on-the-job harassment in its security guard unit. Many employees say internal relations are bad and frequently bitter, though police officers have a better working relationship than do the guards...
...state judge has ordered a time-out in the bitter brawl between Alabama Republican Governor Guy Hunt and Democratic state attorney general Jimmy Evans. Judge Randall Thomas dropped a dozen theft charges against Hunt for allegedly diverting $200,000 in inaugural and campaign funds to his personal use in the late 1980s, ruling that the indictment came after a three-year state statute of limitations had run out. One ethics charge -- punishable by up to $10,000 and 10 years behind bars -- did beat the clock. On that one count, said the judge, Evans can proceed...
...time the third session of the Congress in three months gathered in the Grand Kremlin Palace on Friday, the impeachment drive seemed to be losing its momentum. Although the Kremlin rang with bitter invective, the hard-liners did not have the votes to depose Yeltsin. Zorkin, the Chief Justice who had set the impeachment bandwagon in motion, instead offered a 10-point plan for national reconciliation similar to Yeltsin's own program, including a referendum on a new constitution and a law abolishing the Congress in favor of a bicameral parliament...
...decision is to be made by ballots rather than bullets or impeachment, Yeltsin -- the first popularly elected chief of government in 1,000 years of Russian history -- is already running hard. Parts of his Saturday address sounded like a Western campaign speech. First came bitter denunciations of his opponents and the direction in which they would take Russia -- back to communist rule, according to Yeltsin. The President repeatedly accused his opponents in the parliament of creating "chaos" that was leading to "the death of Russia," and declared grimly that the country "cannot afford another October Revolution" (the one that brought...
This year, the spring season began with a bitter aftertaste. A 6-1 trouncing of Providence came under scrutiny because the match was played under the men's format (which reduces the importance of the doubles contests in the final point totals) due to lack of court time at the Palmer-Dixon Indoor Tennis Courts...