Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current cause of Italy's political crisis is a bitter dispute between the moderate Social Democrats and the left-leaning Socialists. They are both members of the four-party Center-Left coalition that has ruled Italy fitfully for most of the last seven years. The dispute is over the fact that the Socialists, while supposedly committed to the coalition's doctrine of noncooperation with Italy's large Communist Party, often go right ahead and make cozy political deals with the Communists on the local level...
...Valley of the Dolls there are moments of restraint. But this surprising equilibrium only reflects the common-sensical questions that have begun to creep into Meyer's films. Meyer as social philosopher, as promulgator of popular tastes, as moralist, sees in his sexual fireworks not only profit, but the bitter lessons of modern liberalism...
Late last year, however, Rogers had the bitter experience that all diplomats eventually go through: in spite of reasonableness on all sides, the negotiations collapsed because of Russian reluctance. Israel, insisted the Soviets, had publicly made too much of the fact that some Rhodes talks had been face to face; as a result, the Arabs were backing away this time. Israel, meanwhile, fearful of a U.S.-Soviet deal inimical to its interests, leaked a distorted version of the discussions between Sisco and Dobrynin. To give the proper version, Rogers decided to outline the proposals in a December speech in Washington...
...deluded? The 48 per cent indubitably. History records as bitter experience the three main practical trials of the Controls Policy. The NRA of the early New Deal years focused its incomes engineering on the wages problem. It managed a limited success by "spreading the work"-that is, by employing more workers at regulated, reduced hourly rates for fewer hours, thereby reducing the total wages bill charged against business income...
Would vigorous octogenarians keep the reins of politics, business and family finances, frustrating the powerless younger generations? Or would they be pushed out of power and wander around, bitter and disgruntled, unable even to talk the same language as their juniors, like Swift's awful immortals, the struld-brugs? Would conflict between generations supersede hostility between classes and races? How could insurance and pension plans continue payments for decades longer? Will aging control become as vital an issue as birth control? In short, the changes resulting from a drastic extension of the lifespan, or even from a series...