Word: bitter
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Housing discrimination. Stepping into a bitter racial and political imbroglio involving Yonkers, N.Y., the Supreme Court last week slapped federal District Judge Leonard Sand on the wrist for an "abuse" of judicial discretion. Following years of municipal obstructionism and a refusal by the city to carry out a housing-desegregation decree to which it had earlier consented, Sand in 1988 ordered Yonkers council members to vote for the plan. When four legislators disobeyed, the judge imposed potentially crushing contempt fines on them and the city. Last week, in a 5-to-4 vote, the court ruled that Sand should...
Amid an atmosphere of international partnership, research has flourished. In the past few weeks alone, Antarctica's scientists have carried out dozens of unique experiments. In the McMurdo Sound area a group of geologists camped out in the bitter cold of the Royal Society mountains, looking for evidence of the ebbing and flowing of glaciers in Antarctica's past, and biologists drew 50-kg (110-lb.) fish from ice holes to study the unique organic antifreeze that keeps these sea dwellers alive. Volcanologists braved the knifelike winds and choking fumes atop Mount Erebus to learn what kinds of gases...
...bitter hostility between Slavs and ethnic Turks is deeply ingrained and ready to flare up at the slightest provocation. A few dozen anti-Turk demonstrators gathered again yesterday around the National Assembly, or parliament, in Sofia...
...crack in party solidarity so alarmed the Kremlin that it called an emergency session of the Central Committee to address the threat. Party conservatives demanded a tough response to discourage other communist parties from seceding. After two days of bitter but inconclusive debate, the plenum was temporarily suspended until Gorbachev returned from a visit to Lithuania to make a personal appeal to party leaders...
...Pittston coal strike may have received national and international attention, but the ranks of the combatants are drawn strictly from the local area. The miners are particularly bitter about what they call the biased response of state and local authorities to their protests...