Word: dubliner
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...Dublin's] landscape was essentially a landscape of people, of features shaped by guide and scrounging, of quick eyes and lips, of dignity preserved through tragedy...
...could be more pleased with the campaign's success than Wendy's International of Dublin, Ohio (1983 sales: $1.92 billion), the smallest of the Big Three burger companies, behind McDonald's and Burger King. In January, Wendy's enjoyed a 15% growth in sales. A survey of 500 customers who patronize all three chains showed that in January 18% more of them identified Wendy's with hamburgers that have the best value than before the ad campaign had begun. Says Vice President Denny Lynch: "With Clara we accomplished as much in five weeks...
...Dublin paper once decided that he was the "bard of the bogs." Robert Lowell took the high road, designating him the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Seamus Heaney (pronounced Hay-knee) finds very little comfort in either encomium. "The first annoys me," he grumbles. "The second makes me uncomfortable...
...Heaney published two volumes of poetry, Death of a Naturalist and Door into the Dark. But it was not until 1972 that he reversed the procedure, choosing poetry as his main work and lecturing as a sideline. He also chose to move south, to County Wicklow, a suburb of Dublin, with his wife Marie and their three children. "I felt that by throwing up my job and moving and taking the risk of confronting my own emptiness I had the right to the word poet...
...their tab would have been about $30,000. Instead, they used an Air Force jet on which they could bring along spouses and assorted aides. The highflying cost: $244,013. When Congressman James Howard of New Jersey went to Ireland, he had the State Department arrange a dinner at Dublin's most expensive restaurant. The bill: $1,900. Most traveled was Congressman Robert Badham, a California Republican, who spent almost three months touring 24 countries on Air Force planes at a cost...