Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer, those who work in air-conditioned offices will have to stop leaving the job an hour early. These were some of the "slashing economies" that a grim-looking Mayor Abraham Beame announced last week, adding, "There is nothing I have done in public life that has been more bitter...
...elections was motivated by Gowon's genuine fear that if he relinquished power, the nation would be racked by a renewal of the tribal hostilities that claimed more than a million lives during the fratricidal Biafran war of 1967-70. His fears were based partly on the bitter controversy generated by publication of suspect 1973 census figures. Those ranked the Moslem Hausa and Fulani tribesmen of northern Nigeria as more numerous -and therefore more politically powerful under the proposed electoral system-than the predominantly Christian Ibos of the south and the Yorubas of the west...
...disastrous inflation rate of 26% to prod Britain's Labor government into coming up with what Prime Minister Harold Wilson called "a plan to save our country" from a "general economic catastrophe of incalculable proportions" (TIME, July 21). Last Tuesday, after two days of passionate, often bitter debate, the House of Commons approved the government's emergency package by a vote of 264 to 54, with all but five Tories abstaining The plan limits pay increases to a maximum of $13.20 a week, blocks the use of government funds to finance excessive wage settlements by the nationalized industries...
Early on, Arco worried that all it would get for its efforts would be, well, a lot of gas. Many of the initial suggestions came from motorists who were bitter about fuel price increases and wanted only to pop off at the company. To get the transportation debate on track, Arco's admen resorted to some minor hokum. They introduced TV and print audiences to two fictional idea contributors played by professional actors: "Juan Martinez," who proposed a 190-m.p.h. train, and "Amy Farrell," who suggested truck-drawn land ferries that would carry cars between cities...
...still feeling unsure, there's still the possibility that she'll put off business school and go into training in the fall. "But I'll tell you one thing," she says with a bitter smile, "I like to do things well. And if I do go back, I'll be a real maniac...