Word: bitterness
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...bleak academic market and the aftereffects of the recession have left many graduate students--some after enduring more than a decade of graduate school--jobless, bitter and disappointed...
...Crimson then ventured out west to the state that made the game famous, California, and got a bitter taste of what first-rate collegiate water polo can be like, finishing seventh of 12 teams in the Pomona Invitational March 26-27. The team demolished Occidental in the first round, 18-1, and beat Cal-Poly in the second, 8-7, but then fell hard to heavies UC-San Diego, 15-4, and Pomona, 11-5. Dropped to the loser's bracket, the team finished the tournament with two convincing wins over San Luis Obispo and Occidental...
Although President Mandela has made it clear that his government will respect the past, that it needs to be remembered in order to remind South Africans of their long and bitter road to democracy, this deference has not been extended to certain symbolic trappings of the old order. At the opening of Parliament last week, a ceremonial golden mace embellished with a frieze of circled ox wagons -- symbolic of the struggle of Afrikaner nationalists -- was conspicuously absent. An official muttered something about "a technical problem," though others think it will not be long before the mace, along with other totems...
...federal-court lawsuit on the Owl Creek logging, due for trial in July, may determine how seriously logging firms must take endangered-species regulations. Mark Harris, a young lawyer for EPIC, which brought the suit, is bitter about Pacific Lumber and Maxxam. "They're hosing this county," he says. "If they've got a new Blazer in the driveway, that's their environment." In April EPIC also sued the California Department of Forestry for "failing to lawfully respond to environmental issues" in approving old- growth cutting. Lasting protection of the old-growth redwoods, however, depends on Congressman Hamburg's Headwaters...
...what its framers intended. By shutting down the most impoverished economy in the western hemisphere, the U.S. and the U.N. have managed to provide a lucrative opportunity for the enrichment of those it was meant to hurt. And that has left the great mass of Haiti's poor bitter, hungry and disillusioned...