Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin with the Westmoreland trial, coming amid a series of celebrated libel suits, what lasting impact--if any--do you think it will have on the media? Do you think the threat of similar multi-million dollar law suits will inhibit other news organizations in their reporting...
...FOUR YEARS, he never left his blacked-out penthouse high above Las Vegas. He lived amid heaps of dusty trash. He changed his bedsheets on a semi-annual basis. He was emaciated--120 pounds stretched over a six-foot, four-inch frame. He was addicted to codeine, often shooting himself up five or six times a day with a filthy needle. His fingernails grew to be a foot long...
Swanson drives this point home in example after vivid example, and his careful depiction of the human effects of apartheid is the real contribution of his recently released book, Freedom Rising. Amid the campus and national debate about the ethics of divestment vs. engagement vs. apathy, Swanson provides a reminder of just what the fuss is all about...
...slash here and a snip there, negotiators from Capitol Hill worked out with the White House a compromise budget plan that would eventually cut projected deficits by more than half. President Reagan agreed to scale back on two sacred programs: defense and Social Security. Yet there was one catch amid the hype about what Donald Regan, the White House chief of staff, hailed as "the most ambitious budget-reduction plan in postwar history." The celebrated agreement was not with the Democratic House, which will have to approve it. It was with leaders of Reagan's own party in the Senate...
Nonetheless, nonviolence remained the exception in South Africa rather than the rule. Two days before the clerics' protest, black women outside Johannesburg's regional court building chanted their approval as young blacks thrust clenched fists into the air amid shouts of "Power!" When a white - security man trained a video camera on the demonstrators, some of them stared back at him and silently drew their fingers across their throats. Eventually, with riot policemen watching from the turrets of two armed personnel carriers, 14 black prisoners were led out of the building and driven away to the Fort, Johannesburg's historic...