Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leave," it said. Ryan was getting other furtive pleas from cultists asking to go back to the U.S. with him. Jones was asked about the defectors. "Anyone is free to come and go," he said magnanimously. "I want to hug them before they leave." But then Jones turned bitter...
What made the cheer possible was a bitter struggle in the state legislature that gave local jurisdictions the right to legalize the sale of liquor by the drink. Before, North Carolinians were limited to beer, wine or whatever hard liquor they chose to "brown bag" (carry with them) when they went out on the town. With North Carolina's shift to local option, there are now only two states where sales of drinks at public places are banned outright. One is Oklahoma, where the temperance law is widely ignored. The other is Kansas, which ran into legal difficulties with...
Most Gaza Palestinians are unenthusiastic about the Camp David accords. They are especially bitter about Jerusalem's insistence upon keeping Israeli armed forces in the West Bank and Gaza permanently, and Israeli citizens' having a right to settle in the strip. There is also a generation gap among the Gazans while the elders still pine for their old homes in Ashkelon or elsewhere in Israel proper, the young aspire to the goals of an independent Palestinian state...
...bitter fight in Levittown between teacher and taxpayer involved basic problems that are plaguing school districts across the country. It was no coincidence that three conservative members were elected to the seven-member school board on the same day that Howard Jarvis pushed the tax-cutting Proposition 13 through in California...
...full costs of federal regulation are difficult to determine and open to bitter dispute. One of the most widely accepted estimates has been made by Economist Murray Weidenbaum, head of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University. He divides the costs into two categories. The first is administrative costs, which consist of visible federal spending on regulatory agencies. These have rocketed from $745 million in 1970 to $4.8 billion this fiscal year. Large as this is, it only hints at the real burden...