Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year career at Anheuser-Busch, he rose from office boy to president of the brewing subsidiary -- a remarkable ascent that made his sudden fall from grace last week all the more stunning. Dennis Long, 51, resigned as the No. 2 . officer in the company, behind Chairman August Busch III, amid a spreading executive-suite scandal. Just two weeks earlier, three other senior officials left the company after allegations that a St. Louis advertising agency gave kickbacks to two of the executives and a Porsche sports car to the third. Though Long has not been implicated, he said he assumed "full...
Perhaps, indeed. The 16-day congress could not have come at a more sensitive time. At issue amid the ongoing political turmoil is China's leadership into the 21st century. On one side are ambitious young reformers who want to press ahead with the radical innovations such as profits and private ownership that Deng, 82, has begun. On the other are mostly aging hard-liners determined to slow or roll back Deng's reforms and quiet the winds of Western-style democratic change, which they derisively label "bourgeois liberalization." Led by Peng Zhen, 85, chairman of the standing committee...
...done, and he has accomplished much. He presided over one of the longest periods of economic recovery in American history, a time attended by the end of inflation and of the wage-price spiral. He rolled back the writ of the Federal Government, helped to initiate tax reform, strengthened (amid some set-backs) the American posture in the world. But now one feels the ground shifting underfoot, a grinding of the tectonic plates...
...plea to disarm and join in the rebuilding of Philippine society. That hope got a lift when the Communist New People's Army agreed last December to a 60-day cease-fire, a first for the 18-year-old rebel insurgency. But the truce broke down last month amid bitter charges and countercharges. The Ministry of Defense estimates that at least 350 people have died since the fighting resumed. The violence often plays out in a lethal tit for tat. Last week, after government troops killed 13 guerrillas on the island of Mindanao, the rebels ambushed and killed 37 soldiers...
...Mandela, wife of the imprisoned black nationalist leader, in a foreword to the Swedish edition of the book, says it offers a "broad alternative we have all been looking for." Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief minister of KwaZulu, rarely agrees with Mandela, but he also likes the idea. Says he: "Amid a sea of anger and tension, The Solution may prove to be a rational, workable answer to South Africa's unique problems...