Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four of these men seem to get along well with one another. One only needs recall the happy shots of Clinton and Blair--in Ireland or London or Washington--or the smiley weekends Jospin and Schroder spent in the capital this summer to be convinced of their collective jocularity. In theory, it seems, the Western world has never as been as poised to act as a cohesive unit as it is today, at the close of the twentieth century...
...phones have become an everyday consumer appliance--even a fashion accessory. Alcatel claims to have taken 10% of the world phone market with a cheap handset available in rainbow colors that appeal to women. The marriage of prepaid calling cards and cheap mobile phones has made markets in Italy, Ireland and Portugal grow nearly 38% a year because there is no subscription fee or phone bill at the end of the month. In Israel some 200,000 units of a phone known as the Mango, which can call only one number, have been sold: principally to parents, who give them...
President Clinton inspected the bomb site in Omagh in Northern Ireland to comfort the people there. That's all well and good. Now will Clinton go to Sudan to comfort the people who lost relatives when U.S. cruise missiles destroyed the Shifa medicine factory? ERIK AMKOFF Stockholm...
...Full Monty give Americans a taste for seeing less-than-buff foreigners in the raw? The producers of Waking Ned Devine are hoping so. The movie is the story of what happens when someone in a tiny town in Ireland wins a big lottery. It doesn't sound too racy a plot line, but it's the most dangerous one that Irish actor DAVID KELLY, 69, has taken on. "Right up to the second we shot the scene, I had never, ever sat on a motorbike, and I didn't realize one has to balance," says...
Lloyd's of London refused to offer odds; the trip was too dangerous. Then ships in the Atlantic radioed sightings, and after 28 hours of flight, the Spirit of St. Louis crossed Dingle Bay on the southwest coast of Ireland; Lloyd's finally quoted 10-3 against Charles Lindbergh's making Paris. Six hours more, and he touched down at Le Bourget. A crowd of 150,000 engulfed the little plane like a tidal wave...