Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Warner Amex and Home Box Office, a subsidiary of Time Inc., plunked down $ 13.7 million and $ 12.5 million respectively for two of the transponders. The high bidder, however, was a new outfit called Transponder Leasing Corp., which paid $14.4 million, and will presumably now turn around and lease out its...
What's more, the current spate of bombings could hurt one of the most promising approaches to working out an eventual settlement in Ireland: the hopes of Garret FitzGerald, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland in June, to pave the way for eventual unification of Ulster...
In an interview with TIME, Eppler dismissed Schmidt's concern, one essentially shared by the leaders of most Western countries, as alarmist. He gave the peace movement credit, somewhat dubiously, for pressuring the U.S. into setting a date for the resumption of arms talks with the Soviet Union. "The...
Italy. Although the published unemployment rate of 8.6% is above the European average, economists point out that the true figure, paradoxically, is perhaps only half as high. Data are distorted because many of those on the dole actually hold down jobs in the clandestine "black economy." Nor are politicians unduly...
The Catholic Church made no response to FitzGerald's proposals last week, but they were hailed by leading Protestant clergymen in the Republic. In Ulster, Protestant Firebrand Ian Paisley railed that FitzGerald's plan would "in no way weaken our resolve never to come under Dublin rule." Catholic...