Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rucci's assassination, the strike and the apparent retaliatory assassination a day later of a leftist youth-labor leader were poor omens for the future of Argentina. The country is plagued not only by terrorism but by bitter political factionalism and economic decay. Perón was returned to office by voters who clearly hoped against hope that el Lider, at once a kind of Latin Mao and second Mussolini, might magically solve the country's problems. The task would be difficult enough for a man in his prime, but Perón is 77 and ailing...
Price Boosts. The warnings came while consumers were still coping with the aftereffects of the summer gasoline shortage. That scarcity had spawned a bitter dispute between gas-station owners, who wanted to raise prices, and the Cost of Living Council, which had been trying to hold them down. Last week, in order to head off a nationwide protest shutdown that the gasoline dealers had called for Oct. 3, President Nixon ordered the COLC to move more swiftly in allowing price boosts...
...trustees voted in March to award jurisdiction to B.U., ending a bitter struggle between the three Boston-area medical schools that were vying for control...
...East Germany, official recognition by the international community as a legitimate sovereign state is at once an enormous victory and a profound challenge. It also amounts to something of a surprise for the West. Long hidden in the shadow of its bitter rival, West Germany, the "other Germany" has become the ninth largest industrial power in the world-and by far the richest Communist state in per capita terms. Already the East Germans have surpassed the Italians and the Irish in per capita income, and they are closing in on the British...
...Faculty voted in April 1969 to reduce ROTC to the status of any other extracurricular program. Because the Faculty's conditions failed to meet ROTC's usual contractual arrangements, ROTC withdrew after a long and bitter debate...