Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eroded the game, and understandably he has little pity for owners. When his batting average dropped to .284 in 1974, the first time below .300 in ten seasons, the Reds tried to cut the salary of the home-town hero by 20%. It was the first salvo in a bitter fight that ended last week with Rose pulling down a Phillies cap over his pageboy. Rose also knows he can sell a lot of tickets for the Phils to cover his salary. Says baseball's leading entrepreneur: "I feel like I'm the No. 1 player...
...When you lock up people without windows, 23 hours a day for several weeks, they are affected physically and mentally. They come out bitter," Jackson said. "I think this time we are going to see more violent results and a more violent response," he added
Human rights advocates in the Administration blamed "militarists" and "cold warriors" for turning a blind eye to the Shah's repressive policies. The corridors of the Pentagon reverberated with bitter denunciations of the "softheaded liberals" who had blinded President Carter to what self-avowed hardheads call "the realities of power." But most of the grumbling was aimed at the CIA. White House staffers and congressional aides accused the agency of cranking out sanguine "estimates" of the situation in Iran. Administration sources revealed that Carter had circulated a handwritten memo to his top foreign policy advisers complaining about the poor...
Claybrook, a Baltimore-bred divorcee who delights in being called feisty, is proud of the record 12.9 million auto-safety recalls that her agency originated in 1977 and the 8.9 million so far this year. After long and bitter negotiations, she got Firestone to give in to the recall of 7.5 million of its "500" radial tires, which had a high level of defects. She says she expects the company to agree further this week to proceed with the recall "as expeditiously as possible," to produce an extra 400,000 replacement tires a month, and to run TV ads telling...
...threatened suspension is the result of a complicated and increasingly bitter dispute between the newspapers and their unruly production workers. Unauthorized work stoppages and slowdowns have cost the papers 12 million copies and $5.6 million so far this year. Infuriated, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization Ltd., which has owned the Sunday Times since 1959 and the Times since 1967, has forced a showdown. Thomson executives announced last April that they would give the unions until Nov. 30 to agree to sweeping reforms in work procedures, or else the papers would close down until they relented. All of Fleet Street...