51.   But does the bitter pill really help?

52.   But ensuring that stability now looks like a bitter pill to swallow.

53.   But for Rabin-Pelossof, the talk of nepotism was a bitter pill.

54.   But he has done what he can to make the bitter pill more palatable.

55.   But ethnic Albanian control is too bitter a pill to swallow.

56.   But this had to be a bitter pill for her to swallow.

57.   But to get the bitter pill swallowed, he has to negotiate with the opposition Christian Democrats, whom he can no longer do without.

58.   Crisis After years of glowingly healthy growth, the sudden economic slide has been a bitter pill to swallow for the business.

59.   For a country whose self-image has been battered by its reputation for lawlessness and violence, the results Wednesday night were another bitter pill to swallow.

60.   IMF chief economist Michall Mussa and IMF economic division assistant director Graham Hacche, in their writings, also stressed the need to swallow the bitter IMF pill.