Word: iras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite the dispute over the march, the peace process this week went into high gear with former IRA fighters and Protestant paramilitaries trading quips and showing a remarkable degree of cooperation inside the new Northern Ireland assembly in spite of attempts by the Protestant opposition to destabalize it. In Northern Ireland, after all, politics have never been for the faint-hearted -- even if things do turn ugly in Portadown, the leaders committed to keeping the peace are not men easily spooked by the sight of blood...
...claims, "that it felt to me like a catastrophe you could live with only if you kept it quiet," but native childish curiosity drives him to push for answers. His father's family, with its tragic breakup and its missing brother, who may or may not have been an IRA hero, holds a score of riddles, and his mother's, which is mysteriously bound to his father's by more than their marriage, is just as puzzling. No adult will speak to him directly of the families' history, and his knowledge of the troubled family story emerges from half-heard...
...their customers. And it doesn't help the commission's political predicament that the quasi-private corporation set up to administer the program was deemed illegal by the General Accounting Office, or that it was paying $200,000 a year to its chief executive, former White House aide Ira Fishman...
...miles for every $1 spent with phone company MCI. United Airlines even gives you a housewarming gift: 1,000 miles for every $10,000 borrowed through specified mortgage brokers. "I can get miles by using my Bell Atlantic cell phone and making calls using MCI. What a concept!" says Ira Birns, 35, assistant treasurer with Arrow Electronics in Melville, N.Y. Birns has about 800,000 miles through his memberships in the AAdvantage and Marriott Rewards frequent-traveler programs...
...accord in Friday's referendum. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand reports that anxiety over a "no" vote had increased after the initial euphoria over the deal gave way to mounting fear in the Protestant community -- spooked by the dire warnings of rejectionists -- that the early release of convicted IRA terrorists would set killers loose among them. Blair was at pains to reassure voters today to stress that parties committed to violence would be isolated by the peace process...