Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the frenetic activity, says Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, "the real battle will be won by whoever is best able to utilize capacity." Above all, that is a call for more automaking efficiency, meaning greater use of low-cost suppliers, more highly automated and productive plants -- and, in all likelihood, fewer workers, who will receive lower wages in return for better guarantees of job security. The reality is that the future for the major U.S. auto companies is already here. The heartening fact is that not one of them is trying to avoid...
...work on daytime TV's increasingly crowded courtroom calendar. Amid the games and soaps, no fewer than four syndicated shows now offer entertainment in the form of real or simulated law cases. The TV docket began filling up in 1981 with the debut of The People's Court, whose innovative concept was to show actual small-claims cases being argued on camera. Participants agree to dismiss their cases in real court and abide by the decision of the TV judge; in return, the show agrees to pay the financial settlement. (If none is awarded, the participants divide $500; thus...
This statement lacks the demonstrable authenticity that appears so consistently in all of Dubus' fiction, including the stories in this book. Abstract critiques of U.S. society seem puny amid the welter of details and telling observations that the author provides. In Molly, the title character, a 15-year-old girl, goes riding with her new boyfriend toward a beach on the Atlantic. She looks out the window at a succession of small, working-class houses: "In the faces of a group of teenagers who stood under a tree and watched her and Bruce passing, she saw a dullness she thought...
...others, the whirlwind of activity seems more like a new variation on Mark Twain's Gilded Age, a time of reckless speculation and profiteering. Amid the hubbub of buying and selling, a host of probing questions are being asked about the stock market and its relationship to U.S. capitalism in general. Has the market become more volatile, risky and perhaps more irrational than ever before? Is it suddenly too treacherous for the ordinary investor? Is the very function of the market changing, as fast-buck artists crowd in to pursue big quick returns that have little or nothing...
...Amid the furor, Yamani last week telephoned a close friend in Geneva, where OPEC meets and the former oil minister keeps an apartment. "What's there to say," Yamani remarked. "It's the King's decision, and that's life." He added that he would "be around" when the OPEC ministers reconvene in Geneva early in December. Yamani's friend was philosophical: "Here's one man who won't have to worry about keeping himself busy," he said. "Every headhunter ) in Big Oil must be after him." To be sure. Big Oil and Mr. Oil know each other well...