Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the welcomes there were a few voices of caution. Henry Kaufman, a partner at the Salomon Brothers investment firm and one of Wall Street's most famed Cassandras, warned that Greenspan's appointment in the short haul "is a negative both for the dollar and for interest rates." Allen Sinai, chief economist at the Shearson Lehman Brothers investment house, noted that Greenspan "does not have much experience in international finance...
...stage is chockablock with tenpins aloft, batons atwirl, trapeze and low- wire acts, fire eating and belly dancing, pratfalls, cartwheels and unicycling. Somewhere amid all this are the rudiments of Shakespeare's farcical plot about twin brothers and their twin servants and even a modicum of his language, although not without elaborate nose thumbing at his low and labored puns...
MEDICINE: Amid debate and protest...
...AMID ALL the pomp and ceremony of today's festivities, the group of students will feel just a bit out of place. And no amount of marching through Tercentenary Theater, singing Crimson songs, or waving to friends will make them more comfortable. We are the transfer students, those motley few who began collegiate careers at other institutions before coming to Fair Harvard. No matter how hard we try, really feeling a part of Harvard will be as difficult today as it has been during our past two or three years here...
...break in the Charlotte Observer, Bakker confessed that he had paid $265,000 in hush money to cover up an afternoon of adultery in 1980 with Jessica Hahn, a 21-year-old church secretary from Long Island, N.Y. At Bakker's request, Falwell became PTL's new head, amid rumors that another TV evangelist, Jimmy Swaggart of Baton Rouge, La., was conspiring to wrest control...