31.   So one bitter pill swallowed, a double dose of relief for this headache of a season on the way.

32.   Such charges have become popular with companies able to load all sorts of sundry future costs into one bitter pill.

33.   That he is thrilling others is, for now, anyway, a bitter pill we have to swallow.

34.   Texas, with the SSC still a bitter pill recently swallowed and no major physics research facilities nearby, is out of the picture.

35.   That realization was obviously a bitter pill to swallow, and one he spent some time choking on.

36.   That the ugly duckling van is basically a station wagon that dare not speak its name has been a bitter pill for some boomers.

37.   The European car industry is going to have to swallow a bitter pill to cure its ills.

38.   The issue of closing bases has long been viewed on Capitol Hill as a pill too bitter to swallow.

39.   The latest reductions, as well as the recall of some workers at a lower pay scale, were bitter pills for union members to swallow.