Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents of one indicted man, who refused to be identified, said they supported their son "wholeheartedly." "The war is immoral and the Nixon administration is deceitful to the public... For most people, it's profits as usual. The only people who are bitter are the people who have relatives involved," they added...
...this bitter winter of high national unemployment, Seattle has the unhappy distinction of leading Americas major metropolitan centers with a staggering unemployment rate of 10.9%-almost double the national rate of 5.8%. Seattle's troubles largely have their origin in the troubles of the Boeing Co., which at its peak employed 1 out of 12 people in the Seattle area. But the effects ripple out to touch nearly everyone, as TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reports...
Automobile sales and housing are in bitter straits. "We are losing our shirts," laments the manager of one large car dealership. Auto sales are off by anywhere from 30% to 50%, and more than a dozen dealerships have gone under in recent months. Where one agency had ordered 400 new cars by this time in 1969, it now orders 115. A newspaper campaign comes complete with $400 discount coupons for a new car. It brings a limp reply. A brand-new 1970 Barracuda, which would normally sell for $3,000, goes on special sale at a mere...
Borstal Boy. A foaming mugful of the bitter, cheery malt of Brendan Behan's life...
...scientist could have more imposing credentials: Nobel laureate in chemistry, co-discoverer of plutonium and eight other synthetic elements, former chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley and longtime associate director of its famed Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. Yet Glenn Seaborg is currently the center of a bitter controversy that has sharply divided the nation's largest and most powerful private scientific organization. At issue is whether the three-term chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission should also serve as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which has 130,000 members. If a scientist...