Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision by the factions in the North promises to bring an end to the most recent epoch of killing, which began 30 years ago and has taken the lives of 3,249 people, including 16 killed in the past few weeks as the talks inched toward success. Ten times that number have been wounded since 1968 when the Roman Catholic minority rose up against British rule and the discrimination of the ruling Protestant majority. The pain of loss of a family member is perhaps the most powerful shared memory of Protestants and Catholics in Ulster...
...city hall with a giant banner declaring ULSTER SAYS NO, agreed not only to share power with Catholic parties in a new Northern Ireland assembly but also to work together with ministers and politicians from Dublin in new cross-border government bodies, which look suspiciously like the first steps toward a united Ireland. And politicians from Catholic nationalist and republican parties--including Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which for years has been fighting for a united Ireland, proclaiming BRITS OUT NOW--signed a document that says that the political status of the province could...
...enter the park and, instead of a Main Street or Spaceship Earth, you see paths with no special markers leading you know not where. This is the Oasis, a riot of trees where cast members will point you toward the greenery so you can see a snoozing two-toed sloth in one tree, a couple of military macaws skirmishing in another. Then you reach the park's central icon, the Tree of Life, a 145-ft.-high broccoli stalk--actually an oil rig festooned with fake bark and 103,000 artificial leaves, each attached by hand--into which 325 creatures...
...film. Remember that you need a visa to enter China. And book ahead: during the peak season, up to 30,000 tourists visit the mountains, and although the area is very large, beds do get scarce. As they have for thousands of years, crowds arise before dawn and head toward the peaks to await that magical moment when the sun rises from the sea of clouds and bathes the mountains in the radiant morning light. Huang Shan may not be exactly off the beaten path, but it is on a road well worth taking...
...broadened his narrow views. The U.S. decision to take Adams seriously also made it harder for him to backtrack from diplomacy. After an I.R.A. cease-fire in 1994, Clinton and senior aides stepped up the frequency of meetings with Protestant Unionist leaders who had long considered Washington biased toward a united Ireland. When the President visited London, Dublin and Belfast in late 1995, he was hailed as a peacemaker...