Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April, amid growing opposition from neighbors and the City Council, Cambridge's historical commission declared the building "historically significant," resulting in a six-month moratorium on construction...
...reduce government spending, and was bringing down inflation while increasing exports. But the country has since slipped back, partly because the declining price of oil has cut down the amount of money it earns abroad. Any previous hopes that Mexico might improve economically without new borrowing now lie amid the rubble of that earthquake-devastated land. Nonetheless, the U.S. believes that fresh loans would allow Mexico to get back on the road to growth by encouraging local investment...
...hapless Pittsburgh Pirates finished in last place in the National League Eastern Division this year, amid scandals of drug use by players...
Last spring the small department drew campuswide attention when one of its four female faculty members resigned amid charges of sex discrimination. Assistant Professor Patricia Mainardi said in her resignation letter that "junior faculty members [in the department] are treated quite badly and women even worse than that...
...Triomphe, another minor embarrassment waited. Amid a group of Tricolor-waving veterans who attended the memorial ceremony, a member of a Jewish veterans association raised a flag emblazoned with the Star of David in support of Soviet Jews. The protester was gently but firmly hustled away. At a follow-up reception in the capital's imposing city hall, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac told Gorbachev that "French public opinion would appreciate it" if the Soviet Union made a "gesture" in favor of Jews who wished to leave the country...