Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More of those lobbying efforts and more funds might better be spent on younger men just home from a bitter war. The needs of the several hundred returning prisoners of war will clearly be taken care of, but it is highly questionable whether the several million other Viet Nam veterans will be looked after in a similar spirit...
...these shop conditions don't stop the women from joking. "Yes, we have a good boss. He allows us to take coffee breaks...on our own time." Another worker lampooned her boss's attitude in the bitter haggling over two and a half cents more for a difficult zipper: "Every day the boss tells us he's going out of business...
...already stimulating resentment, confusion and, occasionally strange alliances in the U.S. For different reasons, George McGovern and Barry Goldwater find themselves repelled by the idea. At the same time, the Nixon Administration is discovering improbable supporters-Edward Kennedy for example-in what is taking shape as a bitter congressional struggle over the issue. The debate embraces large questions of domestic priorities and needs, of the nation's responsibilities as a world power, its traditions of magnanimity and generosity, its moral obligations for the destruction wrought in Indochina...
...spare parts and accessories. Its three assembly lines were to produce a single model based on the Fiat 124. But to negotiate Russia's rutted rural roads, the chassis had to be redesigned to ride 1½ inches higher off the ground than the 124. To survive bitter Soviet winters, the car had to start unfailingly at -13° F. "To do all this in the time allowed, we had to take risks," recalls Vincenzo Buffa, Fiat vice-director-general. "We started building before we knew what machines would be needed" to construct the modified...
...bitter struggle between three Boston area medical schools apparently came to a halt this week, and with it, the century-long affiliation of Harvard with Boston City Hospital...