Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit has been extremely successful so far, almost to the point of overload," said Deborah Welsh, treasurer of the Cambridge-Yerevan Sister City Association. "I expect there might be several contacts made for further joint trade or joint ventures, such as maybe joint hospital research...
...However, Welsh said an obstacle in planning projects has been the Armenians' inexperience with the American business process. None of them has been in the United States before. The delegation will meet with American trade experts at a seminar today to discuss strategies for trade between the U.S. and the Soviet republic, Welsh added...
Edward is a dog, a sad-eyed but otherwise lively Welsh corgi. When he is upset he makes trouble of a colorful, forgivable kind. Macon Leary (William Hurt) is his master, also sad-eyed, but with no redeeming manners or habits. Early in this lugubrious recounting of his struggle against clinical depression, one begins counting the minutes between dog cutaways. By the end, one is praying for them...
...group charges that affluent English home buyers seeking vacation retreats are snapping up Welsh country cottages and pricing out the locals. In retaliation, the Sons have been setting fire to purchases made in Wales by outlanders: more than 140 arson attacks since 1979 have resulted in damages totaling almost $1 million. Official nationalist groups in Wales dissociate themselves from the property extremists...
...bomb it. That seems to be the philosophy of a shadowy group of Welsh nationalists who exploded fire bombs in five central London real estate offices last weekend. They call themselves the Sons of Glendower, taking their name from Owen Glendower, leader of a 15th century Welsh rebellion against the English, and are thought by the authorities to number little more than half a dozen...