Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the shambles of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Goya, which got its world premiere in Washington this month, there was one bright spot: at least the sets are reusable. One of them could double as Lillas Pastia's tavern in Carmen; another might suit Violetta's death in La Traviata. But as for Menotti's already recycled libretto and music, there can be no future...
...Even amid that recovery, however, many Wall Streeters were livid to discover that Boesky and the SEC had apparently collaborated in what many considered another stock-trading outrage. Prior to the Nov. 14 announcement of his penalties, Boesky had been allowed by the federal regulators to unload quietly some $440 million in stocks from the estimated $2 billion worth of portfolios he controlled. In effect, Boesky avoided the market slump caused by the news of his own spectacular downfall. Steamed one senior Wall Street trading executive: "This was the ultimate insider deal." Raged another investor: "It's incredible! This...
Among more recent takeovers, the SEC is said to be looking at the action of traders amid the turbulence surrounding Broadcaster Ted Turner's acquisition of MGM/UA, for which the Atlanta buccaneer paid $1.6 billion last March. In October 1985 the New York-based Maxxam Group, an investment and real estate- holdings firm, made an $800 million tender offer for San Francisco's Pacific Lumber, leading to the companies' merger early this year. Boesky is said to have bought 10,000 shares of Pacific Lumber stock three days before the tender was made public, and he may eventually have owned...
Besse's murder took place as another terrorist drama unfolded in a West Berlin courtroom. Opening amid tight security, the trial of Palestinians Ahmed Hasi and Farouk Salameh brought forward evidence that the Syrian government was linked to the March bombing in West Berlin of the German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian...
While Whitehead testified, Reagan said from the White House, "I didn't make any mistakes" and declared that "I'm not firing anybody." The president then sat down with members of his Cabinet and top advisers to weigh new moves, amid a crescendo of calls by members of Congress for a White House shakeup...