Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the hubbub, some British financiers fret that Big Bang will eventually become a big bust for purely local firms. British investment houses, they note, are badly undercapitalized compared with their American and Japanese rivals. Britain's largest merchant bank, Morgan Grenfell, has a market capitalization of only $988 million, in contrast to Nomura's ($34 billion) or Salomon Brothers' ($6.6 billion). The worry is that unbridled competition will force many more old-line British houses to merge or go out of business. Says Ian Kerr, a British executive with Kidder, Peabody International: "The City of London has handed itself...
...Fifth Avenue, amid posh hotels and shops, is a roseate version of Venice's Harry's Bar, named Harry Cipriani after Owner Arrigo (Harry) Cipriani because the title Harry's Bar is already in use in New York. Cipriani shuttles between Manhattan and Venice, dishing up unremarkable but popular food in both cities. "Business couldn't be better," he reports, noting that his New York offshoot is frequented for lunch by "lady shoppers." Perhaps they are attracted to his wanly handsome son Giuseppe, 21, the manager, who was rated by On the Avenue, a tony monthly tabloid...
...more than 18 months the campaign has raged amid a blizzard of contending hype, hoopla and hard sell. Tons of campaign literature have been mailed, endless hours of television commercials broadcast, hundreds of millions of dollars of campaign funds spent. Accusations of lying, ballot stealing and electoral tampering have abounded. But already last week, well before the Sept. 1 deadline when the vast majority of some 95 million eligible telephone subscribers are to choose a supplier of long-distance telephone services, the outcome of the Great Long-Distance Telephone Election was already clear. The most elaborate competitive exercise...
Even lack of water does not stop the determined. The town of Williamsburg, Iowa, staged a beach party last month when organizers trucked in 3 million lbs. of sand and declared that the pile was No-Wa-Wa Beach. Amid the tall corn, frolickers in bright trunks and coconut-shell bikinis played volleyball and rode around in convertibles. "It's easy for states that have oceans to have beach parties," says Organizer Steve Gander. "But in the middle of Iowa, we have to try a little harder...
...Amid bitter debate, a committee of feminist historians passed a grim resolution saying that "as feminist scholars we have a responsibility not to allow our scholarship to be used against the interests of women struggling for equity in our society." That wording would seem to say that truth must take a backseat to feminist interests, but supporters deny this interpretation. They point to an accompanying resolution that reads, "We believe that as scholars we may have many differing interpretations of the sources in women's history, and we reject the claims of anyone to be representing a 'true interpretation...