Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that changed amid the anti-Vietnam war, anti-establishment, student protests throughout the '60s when many undergraduates and faculty members demanded that ROTC get out of Cambridge. The strong feelings against ROTC resulted in the arrest of hundreds of protesters, sitins at Harvard buildings, and finally, the bloody takeover of University Hall...
...more unseemly rivalries to sully the scientific community in decades. Squaring off across the Atlantic, amid charges, countercharges and growing anger, are researchers at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. At issue: who was first to isolate the virus that causes AIDS and first to develop a blood-screening test to detect AIDS infection. At stake: national pride, possibly a Nobel Prize and perhaps millions of dollars in patent royalties on the blood test...
...accident when authorities warned West German technicians on Tuesday that the Chernobyl area was being sealed off. Most of the Soviet Union spent last week in a festive mood for the annual May Day pageant, which combines celebrations of international worker solidarity with the rites of spring. Amid the red flags and bunting that adorned Moscow's bridges and thoroughfares for the four-day holiday, headlines about the ruined reactor would have been unwelcome indeed. Wearing a hat and light topcoat, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev waved frequently at the hundreds of thousands of marchers who went past...
When Corazon Aquino emerged from practically nowhere as a political Joan of Arc and replaced Marcos, most Americans rightly cheered this as a success for democracy. Yet she soon found it necessary to dissolve the National Assembly and the existing constitution amid promises that new and improved models of both would be supplied within a year. If some right-wing general or politician had done this, there would have been screams of protest everywhere. As it is, Aquino's pledge of her democratic good intentions is taken at face value, and it should be. But her intentions...
...Nicaraguan contra who was pelted with eggs and fake blood when he visited April 2 will return to speak again at Harvard tonight amid beefed-up security, but non-undergraduates will be excluded from hearing...