Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harry Met Sally . . ., Columbia's movie-production unit has been floundering for years. The most spectacular flop: Ishtar, the Dustin Hoffman-Warren Beatty desert lark released in 1987, which lost $25 million. Three top-management teams have come and gone since CEO David Begelman was forced out in 1978 amid a financing scandal. Coca-Cola, which bought the studio in 1982 and still controls 49% of its stock, fired British producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) in 1987 after barely a year at the helm, during which he accomplished little besides alienating Hollywood's establishment. Dawn Steel, the current film...
...billion takeover of Columbia Pictures comes amid a quickening pace of foreign investment in U.S. firms. But many of the new owners have come to grief...
...break-in comes amid a series of burglaries and robberies in the Square area. Armed robbers have hit three local stores in the last three weeks. Cambridge police report housebreaks are also on the rise...
...Like the never ending loop of music in the lobby of a hotel in Sichuan province that alternates between a Rod Stewart oldie (Sailing) and a socialist goody (Without the Communist Party There Would Be No New China). Like the young man break-dancing to a blaring Madonna album amid a few hundred elderly tai chi practitioners at a Shanghai park. Like the reserve and civility evident in personal relations that rarely translate to civic responsibility. Like the more intractable tensions of incorporating the best of capitalism while preserving socialism -- tensions that have arisen because of, rather than in spite...
...oddly enough, arms control seemed almost peripheral in the wide-ranging talks Shevardnadze had with President Bush at the White House and with Secretary of State James Baker during two days amid the majestic scenery of Jackson Hole in Wyoming's Teton mountains. They agreed to hold a summit in late spring in the U.S. But the most astonishing talk concerned the Soviet Union's internal troubles, an unheard-of topic for superpower discussion...