Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...autos could run on peat, the Irish would be energy sultans. But because the republic (pop. 3.4 million) has almost no other known resources of fuel, it must satisfy 65% of its energy needs with imported oil. For more than a decade, Ireland has been green with envy over Britain's North Sea petroleum windfall and has searched vainly for its own bonanza. Lately, though, Dublin has been awash in a gusher of speculation about a discovery in the Celtic Sea, which separates Ireland and Britain. Last week the rumors proved to be valid. Gulf Oil acknowledged that...
...director-producer-actor-author, who is 81, was raised to be a wanderer; his mother was Welsh-Irish, and his father was an Alsatian Jew who was an international speculator. John Houseman spoke four languages as a child, was educated as a privileged Englishman, won an Oxford scholarship in modern languages, but went instead to Argentina to live among gauchos, returned to London, and learned the international grain trade. He was on the point of becoming wealthy as a grain speculator in the U.S. when the Crash of '29 bankrupted his company. His entry into the performing arts occurred...
...tall, soft-spoken Clark, whose open face, ruddy cheeks and piercing brown eyes make him look like a 1940s-style Hollywood version of the Irish priest he considered becoming, has a history of overcoming handicaps and surprising people who underestimate him. Indeed, his management ability, infighting skills and close ties to Reagan have made him, in the judgment of many, the second most powerful man in the White House. Clark has encouraged the President to follow his raw, conservative instincts rather than the more pragmatic and politically savvy agendas suggested by White House Chief of Staff James Baker. This uncritical...
...City concluded eight months of undercover investigation into illegal weapons exports last week. Eight men were charged with conspiring to sell more than $2 billion worth of weapons, including attack helicopters, rocket launchers, missiles, tanks and machine guns, to federal agents who posed as representatives of Iran and the Irish Republican Army...
...population of 90,000--is divided into 10 neighborhoods, but with some rough generalizing, it can be broken down into five demographic regions. Harvard dominates mid-Cambridge, which blends in with West Cambridge as the upper-class academic, professional set. Northwest down Mass Ave lies North Cambridge, a heavily Irish Catholic region where the Speaker can be seen strolling the streets on an occasional Saturday afternoon. To the Northeast past MIT is East Cambridge--a tight-knit mix of Italians and Portuguese, with a recent influx of Haitians. The colorful, outspoken Al Vellucci, 36 years a city councilor and currently...