Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shall ye reap. Let the Arabs, like other men, reap the bitter fruit of seeds they alone have sown...
...National Salvation Party (24 seats), which Demirel was forced to take into the current government. The N.S.P. leader is Necmettin Erbakan, 51, a smug hard-liner who insists that Turkey made a "concession" on Cyprus by not occupying the entire island. Commented Justice Party Deputy Nuri Bayar with a bitter smile: "We could wind up in a tug of war over a politician that neither side wants. That's the Oriental side of Turkish politics...
...Bitter Fight. So ended the emotion-laden fight over a local statute that had become the focus of the homosexual rights struggle nationwide. The battle to repudiate the county's lawmakers was involved. Bryant's Save Our Children, Inc. rallied some 3,000 volunteers, who rang bells, sent out mailings, manned phones and chauffeured the elderly to the polls. The association won the support of a key conservative rabbi, fundamentalist Protestant clergymen and Roman Catholic Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll, who wrote an anti-statute message that was read to the faithful at Masses. In addition, the local...
...rise above their already inflated levels. Reports spread last week that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, had decided to raise its prices 5% by July 1. That would bring its quotes up to the general OPEC level and heal-or at least paper over-the bitter split that developed in the cartel last December (the eleven OPEC countries that raised prices 10% then would supposedly cancel a further 5% boost scheduled for July 1). The Saudis are not talking officially, but OPEC negotiators have been trying for months to work out some such compromise...
That cynicism is rampant in the nation's coal fields as the 280,000 working and retired members of the U.M.W. prepare to vote next week. Yet the election could not be more pivotal. With its leadership preoccupied by bitter intramural power struggles and its membership caught up in a seemingly endless series of wildcat strikes, the U.M.W. has reached the brink of disintegration-just when President Carter's energy policy calls for a two-thirds increase in coal production by 1985. If the election fails to produce peace and competent leadership for the mine workers, the forthcoming...