Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most bitter feuding is between the Marxist Communist Party of India, abbreviated as the CPI (M), and a breakaway pro-Peking faction, the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, or Naxalites. Their quarrel began in 1967 over land reform. The government had imposed a limit of 25 acres per person on rural land holdings, but many feudal aristocrats had got around the measure by parceling out land to armies of relatives. After court attempts to untangle the land-reform problem failed. Charu Mazumdar, a member of the Marxist group, instigated a peasant revolt in the Naxalbari region of West Bengal. The leaders...
Morris departed with a new and bitter aphorism: "It all boiled down to the money men and the literary men. And, as always, the money men won." At Harper's, which has run in the red the past three years, the chief moneyman is Publisher William S. Blair. The showdown between them came two weeks ago at a regularly scheduled business meeting in Minneapolis, where Morris found himself faced with a 21-page memorandum submitted by Blair, most of it critical of the magazine's editorial performance. Blair's attack was based largely on economics, but some...
...held by foreigners, mostly French. The government is permeated with French technical advisers. Many of them are left over from colonial days, and some are suspected of helping French firms win trade contracts. Political opposition to Houphouet is almost nonexistent, but more and more unemployed university graduates have become bitter that the plush jobs usually go to Europeans...
...bitter aftermath of the Gold-water defeat, however, the libertarians split in three directions. The ideologically pure-the orthodox Objectivists-set out on a course that divorced them entirely from coalition politics; the second course libertarians took was to continue working with conservatives. Some libertarians took a third course and began exploring prospects for a dialogue with the New Left...
...most bitter complaints of the residents is that the students are the very same ones who are claiming to be "socially aware" and "involved" in numerous causes. As Saundra Graham, president of the Riverside Planning Team, which has been working steadily to halt deterioration of the neighborhood, says, "Some of these white middle-class people decide to make the scene here in Cambridge-whether or not they're going to school-so they get together in large groups, pool all the money their parents are doling out to them, and then pay the huge rents which the real estate speculators...