Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hole scientists found a large debris field littered with artifacts: a copper kettle polished by sand particles in the deep-sea currents; three of the ship's safes; a porcelain doll's head; a patent-leather shoe. Most of the ship's woodwork had been devoured by marine creatures. Amid the debris were at least four of the Titanic's huge boilers; an unbroken porcelain coffee cup rested on one of them. Says Ballard: "It must have fluttered down like a leaf and settled on the boiler, which had come crashing down...
...Latin America, debt-plagued Argentina, which owes $51 billion to foreign creditors, is striving to dismantle some of the stifling legacy of state enterprise created by former Dictator Juan Peron. Communist nations are making efforts too. In Eastern Europe, small but thriving outposts of free enterprise continue to exist amid the suffocating state presence. Half the wurst and baked goods in East Berlin come from the private sector...
Under the Reagan Administration, Washington has curbed the Government's , role by cutting taxes and reducing regulation. While the White House proposed a 1982 program to shed weather satellites, surplus land and other federal holdings, the effort quickly bogged down amid a public outcry. The Administration hopes to raise $8.5 billion next year by selling power authorities, airports and energy reserves. Privatization has been far more successful at the state and local level, where governments have been able to spin off transportation, sanitation and other services...
...commission's conclusions were couched amid careful clauses that only partly tempered the strong attack on pornography: the panel stated that there is a causal link between violent pornography and aggressive behavior toward women. Furthermore, it said that exposure to sexually explicit material that is not violent but nevertheless degrades women -- a category that "constitutes somewhere between the predominant and the overwhelming portion of what is currently standard fare heterosexual pornography" -- bears "some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence." The Meese panel's findings are diametrically opposed to those of the 1970 report of the President's Commission...
Despite all the hoopla, says Tommy Walker, "the statue is still the star of the show." But like a demure singer in a long gown who is surrounded by chorus girls in sequined miniskirts, the statue may seem slightly lost amid the fanfaronade. Whether Liberty Weekend turns out to be a genuinely inspiring occasion or the most overdone pseudo-event in history may depend on the beholder. Anyone who is disappointed, however, can look forward to the fall: plans are under way for a more modest rededication ceremony on Oct. 28 to celebrate the statue's real 100th birthday...