Word: bittersweet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When University of Chicago Professor George Stigler travels to Stockholm next month to accept the Nobel Prize, he will experience firsthand a bittersweet phenomenon of the U.S economy. Stigler's Nobel Prize carries a cash award of 1.15 million Swedish kroner, which until only a few weeks ago was the equivalent of $182,000. Since then the Swedish government, pressed by the rising value of the U.S. dollar as well as its own economic problems, has devalued the krona. When Stigler finally receives his award, he will actually get only about...
...Harvard and Cambridge: The city's relationship with its largest resident has always been bittersweet at best, but lately Harvard has been giving off more cooperative vibes. It cooperated with local leaders on a major building project, the University Place development, and agreed to a fairly generous settlement with tenants of the Harvard owned Craigie Arms apartment house who were being evicted to facilitate renovations...
...spirit of the Parisian music hall, still vital, vibrant and surging with what he calls l'électricité. Singing all but one of his numbers in French, he ranges from comic routines to nostalgic set pieces, from songs of social protest to romantic ballads as sharp and bittersweet as anisette...
Harvard and Cambridge: The city's relationship with its largest resident has always been bittersweet at best, but lately Harvard has been giving off more cooperative vibes. It cooperated with local leaders on a major building project, the University Place development, and agreed to a fairly generous settlement with tenants of the Harvard-owned Craigie Arms apartment house who were being evicted to facilitate renovations...
...Harvard and Cambridge: The city's relationship with its largest resident has always been bittersweet at best, but lately Harvard has been giving off more cooperative vibes. It cooperated with local leaders on a major building project, the University Place development, and agreed to a fairly generous settlement with tenants of the Harvard owned Craigie Arms apartment house who were being evicted to facilitate renovations...