Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wants to give businesses some tax relief. "I can't imagine a sharper break with the past," Weld said last week. Except for the chancellor of the board of regents, who resigned in protest, most of Weld's constituents so far seem to believe they deserve Weld's bitter medicine now that Massachusetts has an unemployment rate of 8.6% and has swallowed three huge tax increases since...
...bitter body blow. When you end up $730 million better than budget and then get hit with $4.7 billion over five years in additional costs imposed on you by legislation, that makes it hard...
...first, I had a lot of bitter feelings about it," Hadrick says. "I sort of took everyone by surprise. Basketball in Indiana is very politcal. If you weren't pushed as a freshman or sophomore, if you never got a lot of press, it was tough. I basically feel what I did in my senior year...
Students who frequent the board know the writers only by who laserprints and who types, or by particular initials, as few writers sign their pieces. For die-hard readers of the board, common questions lie more along the lines of 'Why is D.M. so bitter?" than...
...Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an ecologically sensitive area that has been closed to drilling since it was established in 1960. Environmental groups, fearing irreversible damage to the ecosystem, are promising to fight that proposal with an all-out campaign that could turn into this year's version of the bitter Robert Bork confirmation battle. "We'll fight to the end," says Sierra Club spokesman Marty Hayden. "There's no compromise on ANWR...