Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clearly feels threatened. And the wounded giant still poses the biggest threat to any future dominance by Intel and Microsoft. Last year it teamed up with both companies' most bitter rivals -- Apple Computer and Motorola -- to develop advanced software and microprocessors for a new generation of desktop computers. In selecting Apple and Motorola, IBM bypassed its longtime partners. Just as Microsoft's standard operating system runs only on computers built around Intel's computer chips, Apple's software runs only on Motorola's chips. Although IBM has pledged that the new system will eventually run on a variety of machines...
Since then, Cambridge has endured periodic snowfall; but both residents and weather experts alike perceive a change in the nature of winters here. Snow and ice have yielded to slush, and once-bitter cold has eased...
While some remained unconvinced that Tupperware can save the world by color coding cabinets, the converted will still defend their "Maxi-Cake Takers"--portable containers for cakes--to the bitter...
...figure it out either. At Collins' first trial, for first- degree murder, her friends, a minister, her doctors and several experts testified about her character and the violence she had suffered. The prosecution played tapes of her threatening her husband over the phone and portrayed her as a bitter, unstable woman who had bought a gun, lured him to the house and murdered him out of jealousy and anger over the divorce. That trial ended with a hung jury. At her second, nine men and three women debated just two hours before finding her guilty of the lesser charge, second...
...blow with irony: "Retreating behind these lines/ The same old tongue in cheek/ Regretting that both are mine." She swells into Faustian rage ("Imagine the nerve of God/ Letting me let you in") before sinking with the admission that "I would be anywhere/ Than here without you." This is bitter poetry: passion recollected in futility...