Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Northern Ireland's peace negotiations, everything is hard, every single deal a leap of faith by people on both sides who have lost friends and relatives during the 30-year conflict and are understandably wary. But optimism is suddenly once again the order of the day now that the Ulster Unionist Party has voted to allow its enemy, Sinn Fein, into the region's nascent government without first making a least a token effort to disarm its military wing, the IRA. The condition, which has already rubbed Sinn Fein members the wrong way, is that the IRA will have...
...plowshares, only 58 percent of the membership approved of the deal. One Ulster MOP called it "akin to turkeys voting for Christmas." Still, what's important isn't so much the weapons as it is the people using them, and this deal is an important and necessary leap of faith to put George Mitchell's historic peace deal back on track...
...political activist and we cherish that--even though she is of the other faith," he quipped, referring to her family's Democratic heritage...
...film, Iree echoed Kennedy's faith in tradition. "My grandmother quilted from sheep's wool, my mama quilted, now I quilt and so will my daughter," she said...
...trapped in the pattern of slaughter. You are a rebuke to the biggest problem in the world." Yet reports of the Pentagon study, released Tuesday, painted an ugly picture of minorities being promoted more slowly in the military than whites, experiencing more incidents of racial harassment and having little faith that their complaints of harassment will be diligently processed...