Word: bitters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crushing blow to Microsoft, which has engaged in a bitter nine-year wrangle with the Commission. But the ruling also confirms the role of the Commission, which had staked its reputation as an antitrust regulator on the case. A defeat would have undermined its authority and risked a flood of court appeals against every Commission decision...
...memory of that image endured. Resolving never to relive such bitter experiences, Asian governments have since adopted fiscal, monetary and exchange-rate policies to sustain large trade surpluses. These policies create their own set of international and domestic problems, but they have also produced a situation in which Asian countries are now some of the largest creditors in the world, rather than the debtors they were back in 1997. This is one reason that many see Asia playing a role in the way out of the current financial mess. The massive trade surpluses of Asian countries have accumulated, in large...
...long sigh out. He knew that tomorrow he would start feeling ill again (since it was only three days from the full moon), and he really didn't feel like getting sick. He ran his fingers through his light brown hair and looked deep within the black, bitter coffee with a blank expression...
...That's an increasingly common wish in China, where after years of high economic growth and relatively stable consumer prices, inflation is back on the table - and a bitter fruit it is. China's Consumer Price Index showed a 5.6% year-over-year increase in July, the sharpest rise in more than a decade. Food prices soared 15.4%, with meat and poultry alone rising 45% due to shortages caused by outbreaks of livestock disease as well as severe flooding in agricultural areas. But it's not just food prices that are taxing consumers. The costs of rents and mortgages were...
...finally leave these camps." Many of the displaced believe that their tormentors should be put through the traditional justice of the Acholi people - a ritual called mato oput that requires a murderer to face relatives of the victim and admit his crime, leading to both parties drinking a bitter brew as an act of reconciliation...