Bitter
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Koreans perceive in their dispute with Japan an echo of their country’s long and
bitter
occupation by Imperial Japan.
Indeed, Santos and Uribe, members of the same political party and once close allies, are now embroiled in a
bitter
dispute, with Uribe emerging as Santos’s most visible opponent.
Bilateral economic, trade, and currency disagreements may not be as
bitter
as they are between the US and China, but they are thorny, and lack of resolution is making them more intractable.
It is a
bitter
irony that the countries whose soldiers’ lives are on the line in Afghanistan are also the biggest markets for Afghan heroin.
Assad would remain in power in the richest part of the country, with
bitter
sectarian fury reigning in the country’s eastern hinterland.
The
bitter
medicine that Germany and the ECB want to impose on the periphery – the second option – is recessionary deflation: fiscal austerity, structural reforms to boost productivity growth and reduce unit labor costs, and real depreciation via price adjustment, as opposed to nominal exchange-rate adjustment.
Rather, it must embark on a broader and deeper process of reform and renewal; and it must be willing to swallow the
bitter
pill of slower short-term growth in the interest of long-term goals.
This is a
bitter
pill for many to swallow, but it is the reality.
For starters, in a region replete with territorial disputes and old rivalries that are as
bitter
as the Arab-Israeli conflict, America faces a geopolitical environment with no security architecture and no agreed conflict-resolution mechanism.
Europe’s Attack on Greek DemocracyNEW YORK – The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the
bitter
endgame playing out between Greece and its creditors.
Instead of a series of public discussions about the Church’s evolving authority, the Protestant Reformation became a
bitter
battle played out via mass communication, splitting not just a religious institution but also an entire region.
This would squarely shift most of the adjustment burden onto structural funds, a sure harbinger of
bitter
rows between old recipients and new entrants.
And that, in turn, has triggered a round of
bitter
political squabbling that threatens to negate the entire idea of a much more powerful European voice on the global stage.
Of course, it will not be carried through to the
bitter
end.
Indeed, President Putin's failure to "reconquer" his home city of St. Petersburg, now controlled by a
bitter
political opponent of the President, Vladimir Yakovlev, demonstrates the bureaucratic powers that local leaders retain.
Amid
bitter
election-year debates over Iraq and Iran, and a souring economic outlook, Americans may be in no mood for the triumphalist pageantry of a new rising power on display in Beijing.
While some Democrats remain bitter, there is little serious questioning of the legitimacy of Bush’s victory.
For much of its early history – to say nothing of the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction – the country was as closely divided as it is today, and
bitter
campaign rhetoric reflected the closeness of the competition.
And governments will determine whether we should prepare for
bitter
competition or a true team effort.
The
bitter
new reality is that the US and “old Europe” have recently edged closer to becoming “developing countries.”
The odium that emanates from the
bitter
quarrels between critical schools and movements in the arts, the voluminous triviality of so much that is published point to a Byzantine afternoon.
External powers are extremely foolish to allow themselves to be manipulated into taking sides in
bitter
national or sectarian conflicts that can be resolved only by compromise.
Islam and democracy are frequently presumed to be
bitter
antagonists.
After four years of negotiations, Putin warned President Serzh Sargsyan that the price of Russian gas would be doubled, Russian security guarantees would be withdrawn (Armenia is locked in a
bitter
dispute with oil-rich Azerbaijan), and the large Armenian diaspora in Russia would no longer be as welcome to work and live in the country as before.
This identity-focused backlash is exemplified by US President Donald Trump, whose slogan, “Make America Great Again,” was code for “Make America White Again” – a message that appealed to the unemployed, bitter, and increasingly xenophobic white blue-collar voters that formed the core of Trump’s base.
For every country other than the United States, the post-war settlement was in fact sugar coating on the
bitter
pill of dollar hegemony, which favored American companies and workers.
And within the US, Bretton Woods was sugar coating on the
bitter
pill of internationalism, for which distaste lingered from the interwar period of “America first” isolationism.
Moreover, India and Pakistan remain divided by a
bitter
territorial dispute over Kashmir.
This may help, it but won't address the real issue: how could regulators have allowed this problem to recur after so much
bitter
experience, and why should they now be allowed to investigate themselves?
Primo Levi, the Italian chemist who escaped death in the Nazi camps to become a writer, wrote movingly about his life as a chemist and about “the strong and
bitter
flavor of our trade, which is nothing more than one special case, a more bold version, of the trade of life.”
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