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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sydney in the 1970s, was bemused. It would have been "absolutely unthinkable" for him, or any of his friends, he said, to have gone out to a pub wearing a flag or chanting nationalist slogans as young men. I knew what he meant. I grew up in Sutherland Shire, in Sydney's south, where my family - South Indians from Malaysia - had settled after immigrating in 1988. And although the Shire, as it's called, is one of the most Anglo-Saxon regions of the country, it was like the rest of Australia in its laid-back attitude to national sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Lost, Mate | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...lowest, while levies on labor and capital stack up well against rivals. That's one reason the world's second biggest advertising firm, WPP, announced in September that it plans to shift its headquarters from the U.K. to Ireland; and why pharmaceutical company Shire and publishers United Business Media both announced similar plans earlier this year. The arrival of new companies, and a greater emphasis on trade, should help Ireland to average growth of around 3.5% over the next decade, according to ESRI's Fitz Gerald, outstripping most of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Economy: Celtic Crunch Time | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...like, if at all. I cannot understand why those of us who have the means are so reluctant to return to the places we are from. There really is no place quite like home. After all, for Frodo, none of the wonders of Middle Earth could compare to the Shire. All Odysseus wanted was to get back to Ithaca. And who could forget the click of Dorothy’s red shoes? Marina S. Magloire ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Kirkland House...

Author: By Marina S. Magloire | Title: Our Place is in the Home | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...currently occupies 185 Albany St., while 195 Albany St. was leased to Shire Pharmaceuticals and subleased to Altus Pharmaceuticals. 148 Sidney St. was leased to Cubist Pharmaceuticals, while 149 Sidney St. was leased to Acceleron Pharmaceuticals...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: MIT's Newest Acquisitions | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...alien element: where the police station has a "swear box" (saying "nob" gets you a 10p fine), where the pub owner vaguely enumerates the wine selections as "red and... white," and where a man who's had his head cut off is described as "decaffeinated." Sanford might be the Shire, and the residents human Hobbits, to an alpha-male Aragorn like Nick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Fuzz: Lethal Weapons in Jolly Old England | 4/21/2007 | See Source »

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