Word: unpleasanter
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After BankAmerica had suffered losses of $855 million over the past two years, Chairman A.W. Clausen gamely reassured stockholders last month that the unpleasant surprises were over. By year's end, he promised, the nation's second largest banking company would be back in the black. Clausen spoke too soon...
Last year's political infighting polarized the council and made it "a very unpleasant year to be in the council," says Zegart.
While Shen Te found it hard enough to be good when she was a lady of the evening, her windfall--invested in a tobacco boutique--makes it even harder for her to behave virtuously, with all the beggars, parasites, and unscrupulous MBA types hanging around. To keep the capitalist hounds...
The actress playing Mrs. Drudge, the maid of all work, was moving the thing towards me, foot by foot, in order to dust behind it. I was supposed to be lying a foot or two in front of it as the action began, but in my nervousness I had miscalculated...
As Justice Potter Stewart aptly observed in his dissent in Young vs. American Mini-Theatres: "[We] must never forget that the consequences of enforcing the guarantees of the First Amendment are frequently unpleasant. Much speech that seems to be of little or no value will enter the marketplace of ideas...