Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid all this apparent vigilance, America's 112 million workers should be able to breathe easier, knowing that Uncle Sam is doing everything possible to ensure safer plants, factories, agricultural fields and offices. But perhaps not. The headline-grabbing cases imply that a watchful eye is being cast toward workers' safety; nonetheless, the companies involved were slapped mostly for keeping poor records of injuries and illnesses. This year's proposed fines, ranging from $477,000 for Ford to $2.59 million for IBP, were the highest ever levied by OSHA, but the penalties posed little financial hardship for the companies. Critics...
...studio apartment is hidden away amid the rambling old Mafia hotels and quiet leafy parks of Vedado, Havana's modern midtown district. Like many a Cuban home, it has a dusty attic quality, the poignancy of a well-cared-for poverty. The apartment's contents are fairly typical. A high shelf has been turned into a home-made altar, crowded with Catholic icons. Below is a shelf stuffed with the works of Spinoza, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler. Between the two is a huge black-and-white TV set on which, boasts its owner, he can sometimes catch programs from...
...Amid the growing U.S. hubbub about acquisitive foreigners, a fact worth remembering is the importance of America's own trillion-dollar foreign holdings abroad. Any crimping of foreign investment in the U.S. would invite similar measures against American investors elsewhere -- the equivalent, that is, of trade protectionism. Ironically enough, overseas worries about rising American protectionism toward imports is a prime reason for many foreign manufacturers' desire to buy physically into the U.S. market...
...amid all the fanfare normally reserved for a summit between rival heads of state. On one side stood Roh Tae Woo, head of South Korea's ruling Democratic Justice Party, with a smile seemingly frozen on his face. Beaming just as hard and warmly clasping Roh's hand was Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam. After an extended burst of camera clicking, the longtime antagonists sat down in the National Assembly's VIP restaurant to discuss the business at hand: a proposed amendment to the country's constitution. When they rose from their first substantial meeting nearly three hours later...
...that read, in letters at least three inches high, DANGEROUS SEX OFFENDER, NO CHILDREN ALLOWED. "In a large community like Portland, people move into your neighborhood whom you don't know anything about. If we knew who the child molesters were, then we would not leave our children vulnerable." Amid concerns that Bateman will be unable to find a job or perhaps even a place to live, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken his case, and is now planning to appeal the sentence as cruel and unusual punishment...