Word: amid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just so he could talk to a Third Secretary about a visa for America. Someone would have had to be crazy to think that I'd be here now." So said Treasury Secretary W. (for Werner) Michael Blumenthal just after the U.S. embassy opened in Peking last week amid the popping of Chinese firecrackers and the fizz of Coca-Cola...
That is the rallying cry of a determined armed force that entered southern Uganda a few weeks ago from northern Tanzania. The invaders, composed of recently organized bands of Ugandan exiles, slipped into Uganda amid heavy fighting between regular Tanzanian and Ugandan forces on the border. By last week they had advanced 50 miles and had fought their way to Masaka, a city just 80 miles from Kampala, Uganda's capital. Their goal: to overthrow Idi Amin Dada, 55, the self-styled President-for-Life whose tyrannical regime is believed to have been responsible for the deaths...
...spree, the inflationary rises in the price of energy, the gloomy prospects of higher import costs and pressure on the balance of payments−all these will move Federal Reserve Board to keep credit tight and interest rates high. Thus the nation will need great luck to avoid recession amid inflation...
Last but certainly not least. Cambridge's annual musical extravaganza, all $100,000 worth, opened last night at 12 Holyoke st. amid the usual "man of the year" pomp and will play six performances weekly for the next five weeks before touring in New York and Bermuda. Overtures in Asia Minor, Hasty Pudding Theatrical's 131st production, is a story of Near Eastern espionnage and intrigue. And, if the two scenes performed at last week's woman of the year" festivities are any indication, Overtures will continue the tradition of light-hearted farce performed by "dames" of dubious taste. This...
This change of policy, which should go into effect within about a year, comes amid increasing criticism that hospital tests are being overused and thus contributing substantially to the nation's skyrocketing medical-care bill, now a whopping $182 billion. The recommendation is part of a sweeping Blue Cross-Blue Shield pro gram designed to keep the insurance premiums at current levels. A year ago the "Blues" stopped paying for 42 surgical procedures considered of doubtful value, saving an estimated $27.4 million a year. This year they plan to phase out payment for 26 obsolete laboratory tests...