Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, has recommended that its member countries prohibit the sale of meat or milk from BST-treated cows, and two provinces in Canada have temporarily halted the distribution of such products. In the U.S. the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to approve the use of BST amid rising protests from concerned dairy states. Wisconsin's agriculture secretary has proposed a moratorium of up to three years on the use of BST while its economic consequences are studied, and several dairy cooperatives in | California said they will not accept BST-treated milk...
...individual's expectations are conditioned by the prosperity he sees around him, that newfound affluence is cruelly out of reach for many. TV, with its ubiquitous images of the wealth that many enjoy beyond China's borders, has deepened the dissatisfaction. The contrast is all the more painful because, amid it all, corruption flourishes. Says Rosen: "There's an ideological confusion. People feel leaders don't know how to solve problems...
...measure comes amid quickening competition in the cable industry as firms battle harder than ever to expand their market share. Last week Home Box Office, a Time Inc. company that operates the largest pay movie network, said it will launch a 24-hour comedy channel this fall as its first basic cable service. Two days later, MTV Networks, a sister of Showtime, the second largest pay movie channel, announced plans for similar comedy programming early next year...
...historic meeting between Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping took place amid a protest by hundreds of thousands of people who took control of giant Tiananmen Square to demand democratic reforms...
...strangeness is both spiced and complicated further by stubborn traces of the familiar. On Flag Day, a legal secretary suddenly re-emerges as a taupou, or ceremonial virgin. A U.S. Army man appears amid a group of spear- shaking warriors in lavalava skirts, fierce tattoos on many thighs. A former Hollywood bit actor resumes his role as the "talking chief" of Leone, leading his villagers through hymn-inflected island chants and primal dances. And then, just before Governor Peter Coleman, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega and various other dignitaries get ready to join in the final swaying dance, a village chorus sits...