Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three weeks after Ireland's inconclusive general election, incumbent Prime Minister Charles Haughey and Opposition Leader Garret FitzGerald raced to form a new government. Last week FitzGerald won. He crafted an ingenious pact between his own pro-business Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) party and the ideologically distant, pro-union Labor Party. The result: a razor-thin majority of three seats in the Irish Dáil (parliament)-and a coalition so vulnerable it will take all of FitzGerald's wizardry just to last out the summer...
...field of Clydesdales. But then the jumps got higher. Undercut by the tensions in Northern Ireland and voter discontent over inflation (21%) and unemployment (11%), Haughey saw his lead evaporate. A strong finish by the opposition Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) party, headed by former Foreign Minister Garret Fitzgerald, 54, turned the contest into Ireland's closest election in 20 years. Result: an inconclusive draw with every prospect of a prolonged crisis as each of the contenders tries to form a new government...
...estimated $250 million has been spent on exploration and drilling around Evanston. Amoco and Chevron are spending a total of $700,000 to build two gas processing plants. "We'll be here years from now and still growing," says Garret Eckerdt, an engineer for Chevron. "We haven't even found the edges of the thing...
...about the role of the writer in American society were raised. As Granville Hicks has written, the central tension for the American artist has been one of "struggle or flight": whether to stay in this country and make an artistic go of it, or gratefully withdraw to some Parisian garret. Partisan Review editors--and William Phillips was chief among them--chose to stay and struggle during the 1930s. Their magazine represented one attempt by intellectuals to provide a forum in society for the dispossessed artist...