All in, taking a big bite of Yum stock may leave a bitter taste.

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Chairman of the group David Jeffels said the allegations had left "a bitter taste in many people's mouths".

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And even then: I think lucidity gives your success a bitter taste, whereas mediocrity still leaves hope for something.

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In warm weather, some leafy greens need to be replaced because they "bolt" flowering, going to seed and acquiring a bitter taste.

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So there was cause for a bitter taste in some investor's mouths.

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But the match will doubtless leave a bitter taste in the mouth for Mexico, who pulled a goal back through Javier Hernandez.

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But, while he is enjoying himself with the title-chasing Reds and looking forward to Japan and Korea, he admits his experiences after Euro 2000 still leave a bitter taste.

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The hard exchange of words between the two left a bitter taste, despite Uribe's offer to consider changing the fumigation method from aerial to manual so as to minimize the contamination.

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The problem is, it may make economic sense for the EU mainstream to let the Greek centre collapse and force Greece into an exit crisis, but politically it will leave a bitter taste.

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"The end of the season was highly disappointing and being relegated left a bitter taste, but we were in two finals and if it wasn't for the last week or two it would have been considered a success, " insists wicketkeeper Geraint Jones.

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For example, a recent study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Monell Center showed that supertasters were better able to fend off bacterial sinus infections because of a particular bitter-taste receptor in their nose.

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He searches for the origins of the domestic apple in Kazakhstan to tell an evolutionary tale which explains how every eating apple in the world is a direct descendent of apples in the Tien Shan forest (the bitter taste of apple pips is cyanide, their shape adapted to slip through the guts of a marauding bear unharmed).

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It has been a bitter, gruelling fight as conservatives tried one candidate after another to find someone closer to their taste.

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