Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From June 4 to June 8, as the leadership was enveloped in an unseen struggle for power, the world searched for signs of reason amid the turmoil. The country's rulers finally began to re-emerge, but not reason and not humanity. First came Premier Li Peng, 60, the front man for the regime's hard-line faction, giving the lie to rumors that he had suffered a gunshot wound. On TV he praised the soldiers who had killed and maimed to wrest the capital from the demonstrators. "Comrades, you must be exhausted," Li said. "Thank you for your hard...
...Amid the genuine, and in this case unexpected, pleasure of an American President's triumph, caution remains necessary. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are a long way from disarming Europe, and the SNF controversy may come back to haunt Bush. But the President at least has removed one giant question that had hung over him since the Inauguration. He can lead the Western world. Now he must continue...
...Amid all the week's eruptions, Gorbachev continued to dominate. In a 95- minute policy speech, he offered help for low-income Soviets, ordered an audit of all the benefits and privileges enjoyed by the ruling elite, and called for cuts in capital construction and the space program. He promised to reduce next year's defense budget 14% and disclosed that Moscow spent considerably more on the military than many of the Deputies suspected: about $130 billion a year, or some 9% of the Soviet Union's gross national product. Western leaders had long sought such an admission, but analysts...
...frantically putting bets on potential best sellers with the hope of scoring big. As half a dozen cash-laden conglomerates battle for profits and prestige, rising prices for manuscripts are making some authors richer than they ever imagined. -- A look at agent Andrew Wylie, publishing's "naughty schoolboy." -- Amid hyperinflation and hunger, Argentina drifts into chaos...
...Feminist scholar and French literary expert Alice A. Jardine, professor of Romance languages and literature, says she has been granted a lifetime post by the University. Amid junior faculty complaints that they have almost no chance of being offered tenure at Harvard, Jardine's appointment is the second promotion of a junior faculty member from within her department in the last five years...