Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid statements that the summit was "positive" and "highly significant" the five speakers told the audience of about 100 that "something was acheived" by the first meeting of the American and Soviet leaders in six years...
...joint legislative committee is now trying to hammer out a compromise bill amid heated debate. But any version of a bill that binds lawmakers's hands as much as Gramm-Rudman is unacceptable...
...divergent sentiments, grief and joy, were voiced last week as Indians marked the first anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. In New Delhi there was sadness as an estimated 500,000 people gathered, amid tight security, on the sprawling lawns of the New Delhi Boat Club to hear her son and successor, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, compare his mother's "sacrifices" with those of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who led India's drive for independence from Britain. Wearing a bulletproof vest and standing near an 80-ft.-high picture of his mother, the Prime...
After he was convicted on 13 felony counts of conspiracy and perjury two weeks ago, San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock resigned. Then last Thursday, amid allegations of jury tampering, Hedgecock's lawyers filed a motion for a new trial. The following day, just before he was due to leave office, Hedgecock announced that he would stay on, pending the outcome. Said he: "If there is no valid verdict, there is no basis for resignation...
...that adolescent sense of wonder, Bradbury refuses to fly ("pure fear") or even to drive ("bicycle's good enough"). Every morning, the oversize kid takes leave of Marguerite and their home in the pleasant Cheviot Hills section of Los Angeles and heads for an office in Beverly Hills. There, amid a clutter of toys, masks, board games and books, he works on at least six projects at a time, continually surprising himself. His current favorite: a space opera about a man once blinded by a comet who murderously seeks it in the void. "Sort of Ahab with jet boosters...