Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...data processors discovered they were short $227 million in checks that the bank had honored but not yet entered in its computers. A crew of janitors then began searching the immediate area, to no avail. Finally, after an anxious hunt, they located the documents in the compaction room amid bundles of wastepaper mingled with noxious cigarette butts and cardboard coffee cups. If the checks had not been found, Continental would have faced the laborious job of straightening out a $227 million imbalance in its books. Last week, however, when the Aug. 17 mishap came to light, bank officials maintained virtuously...
After a year of alumni prodding and amid much fanfare, the recently retired postmaster general yesterday unveiled and dedicated a small, 56-cent commemorative crimson stamp honoring a humble, 17th-century churchman named John Harvard...
Minutes after the shooting started, police arrived outside the post office. For 45 minutes they tried to communicate with the gunman by telephone and bullhorn. There was no response. When an Edmond SWAT team finally stormed the building at 8:30 a.m., they found Sherrill's body amid the carnage. After killing 14 people and wounding six, he had pumped a bullet into his own head...
...Amid all the chaos, the principal victims, as ever, have been civilians. Relief officials estimated that the 44 tons of food that reached Wau just before further shipments were cut off would soon run out. In the absence of fresh supplies, some weakened children were already said to have developed brain damage from malnutrition. At Narus, on the Kenyan border, ten children a day were dying of measles and malnutrition. "A lot of the children were as + bad as anything I've ever seen," said Andrew Warren, a World Concern employee who recently returned from the camp, "even worse than...
...active duty 14 years earlier, after the love affair that scandalized his parishioners and broke up his first marriage. Esther, Roger's partner in adultery and now his second wife, comes from a family with money. The Lamberts live in a comfortable house full of books and tasteful furniture. Amid his predictable academic routine, the husband notices that his younger wife may be getting bored; when he comes home in the evenings, he finds her well into the wine they will drink with dinner and listening to opera on the stereo. Roger does not want to think too hard about...