Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North's shredding of documents was so brazen that one new revelation of this activity prompted even the committees' toughest interrogator, Senate Chief Counsel Arthur Liman, to sit back amid laughter and say, "I want to hear more about it. Go ahead." North claimed that even as three aides from the Attorney General's office pored over his Iran files on the day they found the lone diversion memo, he had walked right past them with other papers and fed them into his office shredder, which they could hear grinding away. Didn't anyone, asked Liman, say, "Stop . . . What...
...company's new autos with their odometers disconnected and later sell the cars as new. That practice led to a grand-jury indictment against the company and two of its executives two weeks ago. Chrysler had vigorously defended its actions as normal quality-testing procedures in the industry, but amid a storm of adverse publicity, Iacocca decided that the smart thing to do was to make amends...
...jowly, beetle-browed apparatchik, Yakovlev hardly seems the type to blossom amid the flash and dynamism of the Gorbachev era. Officials in agitprop (agitation and propaganda), his longtime career, rarely end up in top Kremlin jobs. Trained as a teacher, Yakovlev became a professional party worker following combat duty in World War II. After becoming acting head of the party's propaganda department in 1973, he was on the losing side of an obscure ideological dispute. As punishment, he spent ten years as Ambassador to Canada...
...post- Depression record, and as many as 200 are expected to go under this year. One reason for the shake-out is that the high cost of attracting deposits has forced banks to seek higher-paying, and thus riskier, loan ventures. What bankers think they need to survive amid the financial-services hurly-burly is even more deregulation, namely the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era law that forbids them to underwrite securities. Opposing that proposal are Wall Street's investment bankers, who would prefer to keep the business to themselves; they claim that commercial bankers would...
...past six years, South Korea has labored to make the 1988 Summer Olympic Games -- the 24th of the modern Olympiad -- into a statement of the country's arrival as a sophisticated and confident middle power. But amid last week's tear gas and flaming Molotov cocktails, the linked rings of the Olympic flag had become not only a symbol of national aspirations but also an emblem of international worry. Around the world, a growing number of sports and political figures were voicing concern about whether South Korea would be able to stage the Games free from boycotts or violence...