Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wandering amid Italian sausage stands, Africanart displays and Japanese-made American flags,fair-goers noted the distinctly Cambridgediversity. Said one woman leaving the Common: "Itcould only happen here...
Lewis A. Tambs resigned as U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica in January amid reports that he and his staff had improperly assisted the contras...
...years -- and millions in losses for those caught in the market's occasional steep downswings. That seesawing continued last week as the Dow Jones index of 30 industrial stocks ended the week at 2235.37, after skyrocketing by 66.47 points one day and dropping by 51.13 the next. Amid the ups and downs, no investor has done better than George Soros, 56. During the past two years alone, the soft-spoken, Hungarian-born manager of a fund known as Quantum has amassed a staggering $1.5 billion in profits for himself and a small group of foreign investors. Says Barton Biggs, global...
...when IRAs became available to all workers, some $320 billion has been stashed away by 28 million households in the handy, tax-deductible, tax-deferred savings vehicles. With tax reform, however, the rate at which IRA money will be saved beginning in the 1987 tax year could fall drastically. Amid the crush to use the plan for a 1986 deduction, money managers were struggling hard to educate consumers about the future, and occasionally mourning the passing of a friend. Moaned David Zaslow, a partner in the Los Angeles accounting firm of Roth Bookstein & Zaslow: "The new tax laws crippled...
...hint of fresh scandal. The agency has been reeling from charges that it covered up the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers in 1984, an affair that led eleven top Shin Bet officials to accept a presidential pardon in order to avoid possible criminal charges. Yet last week, amid newspaper headlines that screamed NEW SCANDAL, more trouble is exactly what Shin...