41.   But while anthropometric systems are harmless fun for some, they have also kindled bitter disputes.

42.   Canada and Spain seemed finally willing Wednesday to substitute diplomats for gunboats in their bitter dispute over fishing rights in international waters off the coast of Newfoundland.

43.   Delegates to a national conference on forest policies ended their deliberations Saturday without resolving the most bitter disputes between environmentalists and the logging industry.

44.   Despite his conciliatory tone, Ballmer did not budge from any of the hard-line positions Microsoft has taken in its bitter dispute with the Justice Department.

45.   Ending the bitter dispute will let the Japanese tire maker focus on improving productivity at its U.S. plants, analysts and company officials said.

46.   Everyone agrees that ratepayers must bear some burden for stranded costs, but there are bitter disputes over how much.

47.   Farmers there are also embroiled in bitter disputes over run-off, public access to farmland and other controversies.

48.   For the Jets and the Patriots, that grudge appeared when Parcells joined the Jets after a bitter dispute with Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

49.   General Motors Corp. is demanding more than just carloads of cash to settle its bitter spying dispute with Volkswagen AG.

50.   He is locked in a bitter dispute with the Police Commission over allegations he lied about taking free Las Vegas hotel rooms.