Word: bitters
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...depression came and didn't leave. The more financially secure he was, Coria says, the more overwhelmed he became by memories of his bitter past: the beatings he suffered as a boy working construction in Mexico City; the disapproval of his mother, who never seemed satisfied with the money he sent back every week. Coria fled the Hamptons abruptly last year in the middle of the busy summer season to recuperate in Tuxpan. Once a week, he makes the six-hour round-trip drive to see a therapist in Mexico City. He's planning on returning to the Hamptons...
...official says Pakistani intelligence agents and CIA drones are searching the mountainsides for the second group that crossed from Afghanistan. In the message delivered last week, bin Laden signaled he would not allow himself to be captured alive. "I swore that I will not die except free, despite the bitter taste of death," he said. On that much, both bin Laden and his pursuers seem to agree: one way or another, his end will come...
Sugar shortages are leaving a bitter aftertaste. Bad weather and rising energy costs have pushed raw sugar to its highest world price in a decade, about 15¢ a pound. In the U.S., a protectionist trade policy has made the situation even worse. "The 1 million-ton gap between sugar supply and demand will only grow more dire," says Sergey Gudoshnikov, a senior economist at the International Sugar Organization...
...paid $42,000. It is just another lemon in the large pile that Harvard deals its students. Unfortunately, I am not a juicer, and neither are my friends, so squeezing lemonade from all of our lemons is out of the question. Instead, we are stuck with an unsavory and bitter, bitter fruit that costs more than the median American income. I call on all Harvard students to shed their guilty procrastinating and failed attempts at studying, and rally in front of Mass Hall against the administration. We must fight—as usual—with gusto to battle administrators?...
Millions of people around the world find Coca-Cola to be enticingly sweet, but the University of Michigan’s recent behavior in dealing with Coke should leave a sickeningly bitter taste in the mouths of more responsible institutions. Two groups, Corporate Accountability International and the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke have accused the company of complicity in the deaths of eight union leaders and the continuing harassment of union workers in Colombia. According to the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, which is run by the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) and the Colombian labor union SINALTRAINAL, among other...