Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nadkarni recovered to continue his atypical--but very successful--pre-med career. Some remember him as a picture of calm amid brutal conditions, sitting bemusedly in the back row of Organic Chemistry lectures while 300 others furiously fumbled with four-color pens while taking notes...
...Amid the mayhem, Jordan's King Hussein was continuing his efforts to win U.S. support for the wider Middle East peace initiative he launched with Arafat in February. Last week, after meeting with Arafat in Amman, the King flew to Cairo to brief Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on progress. This week Hussein arrives in Washington for discussions with President Reagan. His aim: to win Washington's backing for talks between U.S. officials and a joint Jordanian Palestinian peace delegation. Such a meeting would be followed, according to Hussein's plan, by direct Arab-Israeli negotiations over the future...
...Amid student unrest in 1969. Harvard created the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) to discipline students violating freedoms guaranteed by the Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities...
Almost forgotten amid the word games was the plight of the evicted and of the 8 million others in drought- and famine-plagued Ethiopia whose lives are hanging by a thread. The Ibnet episode highlighted the ways in which political issues have complicated and sometimes obscured a humanitarian problem. It also deepened the unease of Western governments and relief agencies faced with a leadership in Addis Ababa that accepts their aid while reviling their principles. "There is a growing awareness in the relief community of just how ruthless the Mengistu government is," said Chris Cartter of Boston-based Grassroots International...
...Prince, in concert," says the announcer in the 30-sec. rock video, amid flashing lights and screaming crowds. Moments later the viewer sees what all the cheering is about. It is not for Prince, the rock star, but Prince, the tomato sauce, in concert smotheringly with Prince spaghetti. Lawyers for Prince, the singer, were grated. They sent a letter to Joseph Pellegrino, the Lowell, Mass., pasta company's president, complaining that the ad gave the impression that their client had endorsed Prince products. The lawyers asked the 73-year-old spaghetti maker to forthwith stop using the 26-year...