Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Problem. While there has so far been a noticeable lack of the bitter Hindu-Moslem religious tensions that resulted in widespread massacres at the time of the 1947 partition, the economic and population strains on West Bengal have become extremely acute. Already suffering from overcrowding and underemployment, the state has never fully recovered economically from the influx of some 4,000,000 predominantly Hindu refugees, who fled to West Bengal when East Bengal chose to become part of Moslem Pakistan in 1947. Ever since, the area has been a fertile ground for political turmoil among terrorist groups, criminals masquerading under...
...born in Des Moines, Iowa, and her apprenticeship has included years of regional repertory work, doing lead parts in The Three Sisters, Macbeth, The Rose Tattoo and plays of like caliber. Two seasons ago she won an award as best off-Broadway actress of the year, playing the bitter, slatternly mother in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds...
...airline industry has been swept by a Jetstream of rumors for weeks that the Pan American World Airways board was locked in a bitter intramural fight over the company's top management. The 23-member board had even scheduled one meeting and then postponed it, ostensibly because not enough directors could attend. Thus, when newsmen learned that the directors had finally gone into session last week, ten of them rushed to Manhattan's 59-story Pan American Building. They were directed to a conference room two floors above the board room and kept away from the 31-hour...
...command, the move injects a new and complicating element into Israel's already tangled politics. Barring another war, Bar-Lev will step into the Cabinet, probably in April, to take up the key economic portfolio of Minister of Commerce and Industry. He will also step into an increasingly bitter campaign for the succession to Premier Golda Meir...
Wall Street, however, cannot agree on what it wants; Casey's hearings have disclosed bitter division on all the large issues. Major brokerage firms like Merrill Lynch, for example, would like to see negotiated commissions rather than fixed rates on almost all stock trades, so that they could compete more effectively with the rates arrived at by bargaining between investors and brokers who are not members of large stock exchanges. Smaller brokers fear that the resulting commission cutting would bring about a catastrophic loss of revenue. For the moment, each side can hope that the SEC chairman will decide...