Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking about taxes, it feels like it has a chance." About 10 million Americans will be affected by the minimum wage increase. Workers taking home $4.25 an hour will make $4.75 per hour on October 1. That rate will jump to $5.15 an hour the following September. Most Republicans bitterly opposed the populist measure initially, fearing both the boost it could give Clinton in the polls and the possible harm to small business owners. Ultimately, the measure earned considerable bipartisan support after a bitter legislative pill was sweetened by $21 billion in tax breaks for small business owners over...
...party of balanced budgets. Goldwater actually opposed Kennedy's 1963 tax cut on the grounds that spending cuts had to come first. But the constant warnings against deficits, and the corresponding insistence that popular but costly programs had to be cut, had also made the G.O.P. a party of bitter medicine. Democrats could promise more sugar at every election year. By the late 1970s the G.O.P. was asking itself which role it wanted to play, Cassandra--or Santa Claus...
...brother might be Order members some day. They'll murder people because of their skin color, religion or sexual preference. They'll go to jail, maybe die. My kids will be sacrificed. The idea hurt." Last fall he left Nicole, with whom he is now engaged in a bitter custody battle, and returned to California to live with his mother. It took some time, but with Sharon Leyden's encouragement he found the courage to contact the people at the Wiesenthal Center, a place his mother had heard about on TV news. "I'd spent years praying that hate would...
Trumbull, for example, said he's viewing the party's bitter strife about platform language as a chance to "really get people excited...because something is actually going to be decided there, in a fairly open fashion...
...plans have been revised five times, according to Sullivan, with the exclusion of Grendel's from the development coming early and that of the Tweeter building only after bitter debate...