Word: iras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With peace breaking out all over Northern Ireland, British PM John Major apparently couldn't resist the overtures of the Irish Republican Army and agreed to start holding talks with the IRA's Sinn Fein. Earlier on, Major had insisted that the IRA clarify that their Aug. 31 cease-fire was indeed permanent -- a stance that was widely viewed as unnecessarily obstinate and taken to placate pro-British loyalists. When the IRA's chief antagonists, the Ulster Loyalists, followed up with a similar declaration on Oct. 13, "that gave Major the signal that he could go ahead," says TIME London...
Consider the following example. Last year, Crimson president Ira E. Stoll '94 was censured by the paper's executive board for an incident involving him and several female editors...
...impressive 79% of the sample group of 4,369 took part. There were built-in safeguards: some questions were asked more than once in different ways, ensuring that only a motivated liar could easily convey misinformation. Of the major sex surveys to date, says sociologist Ira Reiss of the University of Minnesota, this was "probably the best thought out and has the broadest coverage...
Special guests included designated heckler Ira Flatow, the host of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation; James Knowlton, a returning Ig Nobel winner famous for his studies on penises of the animal kingdom; and a paramilitary force made up of Brownie Troop...
...telephone call from Al Gore to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams ended a 20-year ban on official U.S. contacts with the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. It was the latest benefit of an IRA-declared cease-fire that went into effect September 1. Adams is currently on a whirlwind tour in the U.S. drumming up support for increased economic aid to Northern Ireland...