Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along for the ride, the Ringo. In books he usually has fewer index entries than even Lawford. "One guy wrote that I worked with the Rat Pack occasionally. Occasionally! Another talks about how I kissed Frank's ass. That hurt me a little bit. I know I sound bitter, but I have a right...
Life was infinitely more bitter under Mao. "My generation had the worst luck," says Zhang Shixun, the 48-year-old captain of Feizhang No. 3, a ferry that makes the daily trip from Chongqing downstream to Wanxian. "When we were starting to build our bodies, there was no food (the famines caused by Mao's Great Leap Forward killed more than 20 million). When we started to study, the Cultural Revolution happened, so we were sent to the countryside and stopped learning. Now as we start to make some money, there are all these layoffs. The younger generation will have...
...find a good wife without a job. Right now we are saving all we can." Her son chimes in for the first time: "In China it's like one big experiment now. And we are the test subjects." Gu Xiaoli ignores his bitter tone. "In China things will get better. But there are so many people...
...Microsoft appealed that decision, and this week government lawyers learned a bitter lesson about the perils of gambling, overzealous federal district court judges, and how a choice that once seemed like a certain win may end with them losing their shirts. Not only did the appeals court slam the door on the Justice Department's lawsuit over Windows 95, but the decision imperils the mammoth Sherman Act case the feds and 20 states filed last month and on which they staked their reputations...
...Tehran for the game, predicted that an Iran victory would create discomfort for Khatami's conservative foes by prompting massive demonstrations and by showing the "Great Satan" as fair players and gracious losers. While the country's conservative spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, sought to spin it as a "bitter defeat" for the "arrogant opponent," the fact that it was celebrated on the streets by hundreds of thousands of men and women mixing freely represented a challenge to Khamenei. "Getting people onto the street to celebrate something as simple as a soccer match is a challenge to the conservatives' austere vision...