Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oddly, Choice Plus was not created in reaction to any bitter consumer backlash. Minnesota law requires all managed-care plans to be nonprofit, so there was no suspicion that patients were being shortchanged for the benefit of Wall Street. And 87% of the state's citizens tell pollsters they are satisfied with their medical care. But workers did grumble about cumbersome approval procedures, the need to change physicians whenever companies changed medical plans, and limited choices...
Instead of a leisurely out-of-conference home game in the April sun, the Harvard baseball team found itself in a bitter war with Maine (13-15, 6-2 America East Conference) on a wind-whipped 30-degree afternoon...
WASHINGTON: Another spate of memos and documents released by bitter former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes is casting in harsher light the extent to which the Clinton presidency and the DNC became, in the hunt for re-election, nearly indistinguishable. One memo described the re-election fix Democrats were in by late 1995: "no cash on hand, a $7 million bank debt, and approximately $1.5 to $2.0 million in obligations. Not a particularly satisfying situation." According to the memo, the DNC would need $180 million by Election day. That would require White House residents to pitch...
...government and the drug companies to act, doctors and nurses have developed ingenious tricks to dilute adult-strength AIDS drugs and get them into kids. In some cases they chop up the capsules and mix the medication with applesauce or baby formula. But mashed up protease inhibitors taste so bitter that most kids just spit them out. So doctors are teaching children as young as 2 how to swallow the intact capsules...
...would have predicted--a rage for the jig. As star of the two-year-old, 85-member Riverdance, the traveling Gaelic dance show, Flatley hopped, stepped and high-kicked to exultant houses in London and Dublin. When he parted ways with the company in October 1995 over a bitter, and still unresolved, creative dispute, he fashioned Lord of the Dance, a glitzier rival extravaganza showcasing his talents and the updated, freer-form manner of Irish dance he helped pioneer...