Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soared last year by 32%, to $13.6 billion, while profits climbed even faster, by 45%, to $566 million. At a time when the U.S. suffers from a record trade deficit, Boeing is the country's No. 1 exporter of manufactured products, with foreign sales of $5.8 billion last year. Amid fears that America is losing its high-tech edge, Boeing is moving full speed ahead with a radically new passenger plane, code-named the 7J7, for the 1990s and beyond...
...Amid the deepest gloom since three Apollo astronauts died in a gruesome launch-pad fire at the cape in 1967, the U.S. space program has been forced into a long-needed reassessment of its goals and the means to reach them. Not since President John F. Kennedy insisted, just 25 years ago last month, that America should place astronauts on the moon within ten years have national leaders concurred on what the U.S. should be doing in space. "That was the last presidential policy for space," contends former NASA Administrator Thomas Paine, who now chairs a Reagan-appointed National Commission...
...Amid the furor over Ronald Pelton's betrayal, the OSS veterans gathered for a festive 25th annual banquet that provided a mite of moral support to Administration efforts to bolster the nation's intelligence apparatus. The banqueters warmly applauded when Reagan pledged to do just that, and nobody there had any trouble seconding the President's praise of CIA Director William Casey as "one of the heroes of America's fight for freedom." After all, Bill Casey was one of them; from the OSS office in London, he had helped direct the deployment of agents behind enemy lines. Still...
...Amid the controversy over his use of CIA money, Safran and some of his supporters asserted that attacks on the Egyptian-born Jew had more to do with his religion and sympathies to Israel than with any purported wrongdoing...
...announcement of Safran's defeat comes amid speculation that he may be contemplating departing Harvard. According to a source close to the professor, Safran has abandoned an attempt to win a temporary appointment at a University in France and is currently negotiating with the University of California at San Diego to teach there next year...