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...National Association of Realtors found last fall that the average potential first-time buyer had only 77% of the income needed to qualify for the mortgage on a starter home. Current homeowners, by contrast, had 112% of the income required for a mortgage on a median-priced home. Said Ira Gribin, president of the Realtors association: "The first-time home buyer is virtually priced out of the market in many parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gimme Shelter | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Sullivan, an Irish Catholic raised in England, called the IRA a terrorist group and said that it is supported by Libyan leader Moamar Khadafi, a known terrorist...

Author: By Michael S. Berk, | Title: Panelists Criticize Press's Role in Northern Ireland | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...Thomas said members of the IRA "are not gangsters or sociopaths or religious fanatics. They're simply people who concluded that force is the only language that government will listen...

Author: By Michael S. Berk, | Title: Panelists Criticize Press's Role in Northern Ireland | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

Specifically, London columnist Andrew Sullivan and Thomas disagreed about the nature of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the armed wing of the Catholic nationalist movement, which has carried out violent attacks against the government and civilians in Northern Ireland...

Author: By Michael S. Berk, | Title: Panelists Criticize Press's Role in Northern Ireland | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

BREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler. The funeral of a friend's husband distracts Maggie and Ira Moran, but not disruptively; this deft novel is a hymn to stable, unassuming married life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best of '88: Books | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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