Word: proceed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movement toward peace in Northern Ireland seemed to proceed apace with an historic meeting between Dublin and the Irish Republican Army, but potential troubles from absent players festered elsewhere. In the Irish capital, Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds and Gerry Adams, head of the I.R.A.'s political wing, said they were "totally and absolutely committed to democratic and peaceful methods of resolving our political problems." But they stopped short of agreeing to the permanent I.R.A. cease-fire demanded by British P.M. John Major, who has opposed the all-Irish talks. Worse for him, Major got into a dust-up with...
...book is not an experience to be sneered at. Storytelling began as an oral art, after all, and there can be something profoundly satisfying about hearing a book read aloud. In some ways an audio book demands more concentration than a printed one. Reading allows freedom -- the freedom to proceed at one's own pace, to stop and savor a passage, to pause and reread or jump ahead and skim. With an audio book, the pace is steady and unyielding; if a moment's distraction causes you to miss a key passage, you can return to the exact place only...
...still patrolling. Before dawn on Sunday she and 10 others slipped away from a beach east of Havana. They were spotted by a Cuban coastal patrol boat 28 miles from the island, far beyond the coastal limits, but after circling their crudely built wooden craft, the soldiers let them proceed...
...office said he will return from Israel on July 1 and proceed directly to Martha's Vineyard. There, the professor will catch up on a "very heavy writing load," according to a woman identifying herself as his secretary...
...Harvard is to maintain its status as the nation's preeminent institution of higher learning, this is no way to proceed. If the University is to advance, it must be willing to experiment--it must stay in touch with the students who are is lifeblood. Simply standing by the status quo--whether it be on issues of calendar reform, faculty appointments, ROTC or anything else--will not work...