Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Javier across the plaza was arrested. The government also promised a "swift and definitive" resolution of the 1984 incident. Welcome as those actions were, they brought little comfort to the grieving family and friends of Evelio Javier, or to the thousands of Filipinos who wonder how democracy can survive amid gangland violence...
...time for the Grand Themes of the evening to entangle themselves. East meets West. The lure of capitalism--in the promising form of the "black goop" everywhere--overtakes a sleepy, sandy desert town. Strong women dominate wimpy sniveling men amid chastity belts and harem-slaves. The Church meets the heathens. Everyone falls in love...
...where she and her late husband had lived since 1935. There was some irony in the fact that the county involved happened to be California's Marin, one of the wealthiest in the nation. Local officials, however, were quick to point out that pockets of deserving poverty did exist amid Marin's hot-tubbed sybaritism. But then the trust's sole asset, a 7% stake in the obscure Belridge Oil Co., was gobbled up by Shell Oil Co. for a whopping $260 million, and even some Marinites began to wonder whether they needed that much charity...
...headquarters in Virginia Beach, Va., consists of three massive white pillared buildings where some 4,000 Roberston employees work amid strict security (for example: coded cards to unlock doors). The buildings house not only studios but CBN University, which enrolls 715 graduate students and is adding a law school acquired free from Oral Roberts University...
...Amid the chronic bloodletting of Central America, Costa Rica stands out as an oasis of calm. But when the quadrennial presidential elections roll around, the country erupts into a celebration of its nearly century-old democracy that resembles nothing quite so much as a homecoming football game. Music blares, drivers honk, and flags decorate the streets. The Feb. 2 elections were no different. After more than 1 million voters went to the polls, Oscar Arias Sanchez of the ruling National Liberation Party emerged triumphant with 52.3% of the vote, defeating the Social Christian Unity Party's Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier...