Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last spring, amid a routine administrative review of the lottery system that occurs every three to four years, a storm of controversy arose when the Standing Committee on Athletics (SCA) recommended limiting the number of varsity athletes in each house to preserve student diversity within them...
...this helped move Congress last year to allow public-housing residents to buy their own homes. Kenilworth tenants will have five years, beginning in 1990, to buy co-op shares representing home ownership. Amid talk of similar undertakings in a dozen other places, Gray modestly accounted for Kenilworth's remarkable achievement: "This happens when people want change...
...been broken." So allowed an impassive Mikhail Gorbachev as he stood beside a wooden-faced Helmut Kohl amid the czarist splendor of the Kremlin's St. George Hall. The Soviet leader's chilly assessment of his first private meeting with the West German Chancellor brought little warmth to the thaw in relations between the Soviet Union and West Germany. But that hardly mattered in the cold calculation of national interests that dominated four days of careful, even curt talks between Europe's two pre-eminent powers. Gorbachev's impoverished military superpower is keen to profit from Western investment and trade...
...walled farmhouse three days' ride from the Panjshir Valley, Massoud is asked if he would consider dealing with Najibullah. Amid interruptions from aides bringing intelligence reports scribbled on scraps of paper, the guerrilla chief declares, "There is no possibility of coexistence with the Communists...
...dismissal, which the Malones have appealed to the State Supreme Judicial Court, has Boston churning. Amid rumors that there have been other phony claims of minority status, mayor Ray Flynn ordered a review of the hiring practices in the fire and school departments. Two weeks ago, Flynn disclosed that at least five other fire fighters will be asked to prove they are not white...