Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Broker Walter Burke pauses amid the plaintive calls from his customers. "Everyone's scared," he says. "They're bailing out." But he finds one consolation. "A fast death," he philosophizes, "is better than a slow...
...Amid Columbia's turmoil, Harvard had its own scholars-and-dollars flap last week. In a new book, The Empire Builders: Power, Money & Ethics Inside the Harvard Business School (Morrow; $19.95), Author J. Paul Mark, an ex-Harvard researcher, accuses many B-school profs of stealing ideas from students and using them to get consulting fees and corporate directorships. Dean John McArthur censures the book for "hundreds of factual errors and fabricated events." Typical of the screaming wounded: Professor Michael Porter, who claims Mark never talked with him before writing a tale of alleged pirating of student concepts...
...control: unhinged economic forces, irrational foreign crises, undetected illness. The stock market went into a panicked free fall. Iran launched a Chinese-made missile from Iraqi territory that hit a Kuwaiti tanker that was flying the U.S. flag in the Persian Gulf to protect, in part, Japanese oil supplies. Amid this babble of conflicting national interests, any American action, however justified, promised to inflame unfathomable hatreds. And the man with the responsibility for authorizing any retaliation was shouldering a more personal but no less worrisome burden as his wife entered Bethesda Naval Hospital for a biopsy and then a modified...
...YORK--A few blue-chip stocks posted modest gains yesterday as the battered market showed some signs of stabilizing amid continued heavy trading...
...YORK--The stock market rebounded robustly yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrial average posting its second straight record one-day gain amid mounting hopes that the worst of Wall Street's recent woes may be past...