Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unpleasant experience. Certainly it has proved a difficult task for Harry Jack Gray, 65, the chairman of Hartford-based United Technologies. Four potential successors have come and gone at United Technologies during the past six years. Last September, Heir Apparent Robert Carlson suddenly resigned as president, amid reports that Gray had allegedly wiretapped his office and home. An investigation by the company's directors uncovered no evidence of such skulduggery...
...member states. In speeches last week, a long parade of leaders inveighed against most of the world's ills, including Latin America's crippling $370 billion debt, famine in Africa, war and terrorism in Central America, Afghanistan and the Mideast, apartheid in South Africa, and the nuclear arms race. Amid the rhetorical hand wringing, Foreign Minister Suppiah Dhanabalan of Singapore cautioned, "There is a clear danger that this organization may become irrelevant to issues of peace and security, the primary issues for which it was founded...
Hundreds of citizens flocked to medical clinics to donate blood, while others contributed food, clothing and blankets and offered shelter to the homeless. In the meantime the rescuers, some wearing bright orange vests and blue face masks, labored to trace cries for help amid twisted girders and broken blocks of concrete. When rescuers found survivors, they passed them in a human chain from the top of fallen buildings to the street and into waiting ambulances...
...offers of outside assistance, the burden as well as the suffering could, of course, be borne only by Mexico's grieving millions. Yet amid all the pain and the anguish caused by the great quake, Mexicans had reason to be proud of the way in which they reacted to the disaster. One of the few uplifting results of last week's tragedy was the determination with which the military, civilian officials and thousands of volunteers pitched in to the agonizing task of seeking signs of life among the rubble and recovering the bodies of those who were beyond help...
...police and army units into troubled areas. At the same time, the Botha government has begun to feel the heat of disapproval abroad. The withdrawal of credit by a number of U.S. and other Western banks over the past two months has produced a financial crisis that remains unresolved. Amid signs of rising anger in the U.S. Congress, President Reagan, in one of the major foreign policy shifts of his Administration, early last week imposed by Executive Order a series of sanctions against South Africa that went a long way toward preempting a stronger sanctions bill already passed...