Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which we finance the development of less-fortunate economies. At home he would want to do something about Microsoft, since he had been passionate about monopoly from the moment he entered politics. Although no single trust a hundred years ago approached the monolithic immensity of Mr. Gates' empire, the Northern Securities merger of 1901 created the greatest transport combine in the world, controlling commerce from Chicago to China...
...journalistic barbs at their incompetence; party rivals, who found him too zealous a supporter of the united front with the Kuomintang nationalists; landlords, who hated his pro-peasant rhetoric and activism; Chiang Kai-shek, who attacked his rural strongholds with relentless tenacity; the Japanese, who tried to smash his northern base; the U.S., after the Chinese entered the Korean War; the Soviet Union, when he attacked Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist policies. Mao was equally unsinkable in the turmoil--much of which he personally instigated--that marked the last 20 years of his rule in China...
STORMONT, Northern Ireland: The politicians have done their job; now it's up to the people. Since none of the parties involved actually signed anything, today's agreement was less a binding deal than a codification of proposals that will be put to a referendum in both Northern Ireland and the Republic, tentatively scheduled for May 22. "The issue is now less whether the parties accept the proposals, but whether the voters accept them," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Parties that opt for opposition after studying the proposals would have to persuade the electorate to vote against...
...world suddenly gone sane. And one of the nicer features of peace in Northern Ireland, surely, is that we won't have to sit through any more Brad Pitt-as-an-IRA-hard-guy stinkers. A peace dividend never smelled so sweet...
...talks depended on the British and Irish governments' adopting "radically different measures," managed to drag Tony Blair up to Belfast for emergency consultations with the Unionists. Despite the rhetoric, however, Hillenbrand says the Unionists are not seriously threatening to quit the talks. Even then, the pursuit of happiness in Northern Ireland is on the back burner; the best Blair and Mitchell can hope for is to minimize unhappiness -- and keep the peace...