Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned to Dr. Montagnier, a noted virologist at the Pasteur Institute, to find the cause. By 1983 his team had isolated a new human retrovirus. Their results, published in Science, were largely ignored. Then, in 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo announced that he had discovered the virus. Only after a bitter legal battle did the two scientists agree to share credit for the discovery. Today Montagnier promotes AIDS research and treatment centers in Africa...
...Omuga, this year's good news on AIDS underscores a bitter truth: the new combination therapies are of little use to 90% of the people suffering from the disease. In Africa, India, Thailand and to a growing extent Central and Eastern Europe, the treatment's price tag of up to $20,000 a year puts it way beyond the grasp of all but the superrich. "With this discovery, the AIDS gap only becomes wider," laments Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N.'s AIDS program. To most AIDS researchers, it has become painfully obvious that drugs of any kind...
...first black African to hold the highest U.N. post was chosen only after a round of diplomatic fisticuffs between two increasingly bitter adversaries, France and the U.S. Bruised by the U.S. veto of Boutros-Ghali, its preferred choice, France endorsed three other candidates ahead of Annan. U.S. Secretary of State-designate Madeleine Albright negotiated throughout the week with the French U.N. ambassador. By Thursday, Annan had 14 of the 15 Security Council votes, with only France dissenting, and Paris finally gave way when all three African nations on the council, including Boutros-Ghali's Egypt, united behind the Ghanaian. Annan...
...brief and unhappy 14 months. And he wasn't departing to take over Sony's troubled entertainment empire, as had been rumored. Simply put, he was out of a job. "There are even people who don't like him who feel sorry for him," said one of his bitter enemies, who added that he was not among them...
...wanted to marry me. Patrick looked surprised at the question and replied simply, "Because I love David very much and want to spend the rest of my life with him." It is hard to imagine that such an honest and loving statement could be the subject of a bitter national debate. Last week's Hawaii court ruling has increased the tempo of the morals police, who are determined to impose their values on our lives. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of political demagogues willing to build their careers on the fear of change...