Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bitter that you lost these years of your life...
...bitter. There were aspects that were rewarding. I have lost a great deal in the sense that I spent 27 years of my life in prison...
...employees to hunt for scarce jobs in an already depressed Wall Street market. Drexel's layoffs, which began Friday, will add thousands more workers to the 37,000 already dismissed by investment firms in the past two years, almost 10% of Wall Street's work force. In a final bitter send-off, the firm's employees, who owned 54% of Drexel's stock, saw the value of their holdings evaporate with the bankruptcy filing...
When Ingvar Carlsson, Sweden's Social Democratic Prime Minister, entered the chambers of parliament last week, he was convinced that he brought with him the cure to the country's economic woes, which are many. Banks had been closed for almost three weeks in a bitter strike and lockout; wages have risen 28% since 1986; and inflation gallops ahead at an estimated 9%. Carlsson's plan was painful: a two-year freeze on rents, wages and prices and arbitration to prevent strikes. After several hours of heated debate, the five opposition parties united to defeat Carlsson's bill. The final...
...Strindberg's hands, the ultimate triumph of the wife over her husband is not an assertion of female independence but rather the bitter victory of a twisted spirit. The Father does not treat Laura's story as an exceptional one. The Captain, like the audience, sees his wife as a representative of all women, and cries, "To hell with hags...