Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tuesday--After a year of renovations, Cabot House's Briggs Hall reopens amid fanfare and kegs. Master Myra Mayman beams, "It's beautiful--but why don't the bathrooms have sinks?" Chagrined work supervisor Bill Zoof says, "Oh, shit. They weren't in the blueprint...
...Thursday--"Yale Mary", Jean-Luc Godard's controversial sequel to last year's hit "Hail Mary" opens amid virulent protest at the Orson Welles Theatre. The film, featuring Eli Jodie Foster as an undergraduate English major and part-time mother of God, is condemned by President Bok as "flagrant Yale propaganda." Bok adds, "Besides, Princeton is the only Ivy school that can boast a celebrated virgin...
Most landmark laws are signed in the Oval Office amid great hoopla, by a beaming President surrounded by self-promoting politicians grinning in the glare of television lights. But when Ronald Reagan penned his name on the Gramm-Rudman Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Reduction Control Act of 1985 last week, he did so without ceremony or cameras...
...often hesitates, like a steeplechase horse in front of a high hedge. Last week the market rushed up to the 1500 mark. At the opening bell on Thursday the Dow Jones industrial average stood at 1484.40, having shot up 150 / points in two months. Amid frenzied trading, the Dow quickly jumped another 16 points. Twice during the morning the average temporarily pierced the 1500 mark, but it did not remain there long. Soon investors moved in to sell stocks and cash in their profits. The index ended the day down 1.49. On Friday the Dow fell another 5.73 points...
There were also several bright spots amid the cagers' continued poor field goal shooting...