Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not the first time the two council members have clashed this year. This past Sunday, at the council's first meeting of the year, the two engaged in a bitter exchange of insults during a debate on budget allocations...
Last night's debate over the budget was marked by a bitter exchange between two of the council's most visible members, Hyman and Coffey. The two ran a close race for president last spring that Hyman ultimately...
...crusade against Time Warner being led by Bill Bennett (who ended up on our "Most Influential Americans" list this year). This week we try to do a fair and honest job of looking at the strains caused by Time Warner's merger with Turner Broadcasting and at the bitter battles and strange alliances among the growing number of news outlets such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox. We initially failed to cover the Time Warner merger when it was announced seven years ago, but we learned our lesson quickly and tried to cover subsequent corporate dealings as we would any business...
...crusade against Time Warner being led by Bill Bennett (who ended up on our "Most Influential Americans" list this year). This week we try to do a fair and honest job of looking at the strains caused by Time Warner's merger with Turner Broadcasting and at the bitter battles and strange alliances among the growing number of news outlets such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox. We initially failed to cover the Time Warner merger when it was announced seven years ago, but we learned our lesson quickly and tried to cover subsequent corporate dealings as we would any business...
...although I'd bet that their interest stems from polite false humility and that they won't be too active in the crusade to dump the rankings. Although one of the organizers of the Stanford coalition denies that this movement stems from "sour grapes," it's pretty clear that bitter envy is the driving force behind the effort to reform the rankings. Had Stanford been ranked number one, no one from Stanford would be whining...