Word: accords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cahill identified the "super majority" provisions, which require both Catholic and Protestant politicians in a new bipartisan assembly to approve legislation, as the treaty's most important innovation. Both sides, he said, received part of what they wanted in the accord, which is intended to end the violence over British rule in Northern Ireland...
...thought filing your taxes was tough. Householders across Ulster will be checking the fine print on the 75-page Northern Ireland peace accord Tuesday, as several hundred thousand glossy copies of the deal drop onto doormats. It?s the beginning of a British government campaign to encourage people in the province to vote in next month?s referendum -- a campaign that stops short of calling for a ?yes? vote. ?The dominant political slogan here for a long time has been ?Ulster Says No,? so it can be counterproductive to just come out and say it,? said a Northern Ireland Office...
Chief accomplishment: Camp David accord brought temporary Middle East peace...
...Vietnam reach a peace accord...
...knew I was coming to a very intense College and I wanted...[my] heart and mind to be of accord," Aulino says, adding that she is a neurobiology major who wishes to reconcile the scientific and the social interpretations of how the mind works...