Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members as a product of "poor judgment." Speaking as a member of the Reevaluation team, I would like to take this opportunity to respond to Ms. Anger's personal attack on the Committee members. First, I will try to expose Ms. Anger's attack for what it is--the bitter prattling of someone who was passed over for a spot on the Reevaluation Committee. Second, I will defend and establish the credentials of some members who were selected. Finally, I will make a statement for the record--Hillary, I'm a big fan of yours...
While reading her letter, I was struck by its bitter theme and almost surprised when she did not carry her argument to its logical zenith--"But MOM, I wanted to be on the Committee!" Her fourth paragraph was particularly telling when she wrote, "I applied to be on the reevaluation committee. I was not accepted." At that point, she could have chosen to proclaim her own virtues and attempted to explain why she was a strong applicant; instead, she childishly degenerated into implying that somehow ALL of the committee members are underqualified, "entrenched" pals of Mike Beys...
...Bitter arguments between the President and the Congress are built into our constitutional system. What isn't necessarily built in are the bitter arguments of recent years over the constitutional division of labor itself. Controversies over a wide range of issues -- independent-counsel prosecutions, Supreme Court nominees, funding of the Nicaraguan contras, the Persian Gulf War, the federal budget deficit -- all turned into fights about the separation of powers between the Legislative and Executive branches...
...reaction of some Blacks to years of suffering American society's iniquity became increasingly bitter, a reverse form of racism began to appear. Centuries of white bigotry against Blacks inverted into Black hatred of whites. The followers of the Nation wanted a spiritual rationale for racism. Islam, as promulgated by the Nation, became less the orthodox belief to which a fifth of the world's population adheres, and more a justification for the Nation's political agenda...
...FORCE BASE in Florida. In a report to be made public March 15, the Defense Department intends to recommend to Congress that Homestead Air Force Base be closed. Across the country, other communities await word on the fate of their military bases, but this closure will be a particularly bitter one. After Hurricane Andrew nearly destroyed the base last August, President Bush pledged that "we will rebuild Homestead Air Force Base." In the current budget-crunching climate, it seems unlikely that promise will be kept...