Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martin Ferris, a leading negotiator for Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), discussed the recent stalemate in the Northern Ireland peace process at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) yesterday...
...York may be different. In a town where Hillary Clinton's mere mention of a possible Palestinian state can provoke outrage, Hare's sympathy toward the Palestinians and his portrayal of some Israelis as conspiracy theorists who believe that Yitzhak Rabin arranged his own assassination to discredit right-wing Jews may come as something of a shock. Says Daldry: "I would just hope people see the whole argument...
...doesn't take a wing-tipped M.B.A. to spot the flaw here--much of the world is in or near recession, demand for personal computers is slowing, so are corporate profits. Amid that sluggishness, the Labor Department said Friday that unemployment inched higher in February--to 4.4%, from 4.3% the previous month. And the prices of raw materials like oil and copper, on average, are at their lowest in decades. This is not the stuff of sudden price hikes in consumer items. "It's beyond me how anyone can be worried about inflation," economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics...
LEAVE YOUR JOYSTICK AT HOME Any of the 5 million people who own Wing Commander, the perennially popular space-wars game for the PC, could imagine that its developer, Chris Roberts, had big aspirations. After all, this is the guy who created an elaborate futuristic world where humans battle the evil Kilrathi race across the galaxy. At last Roberts' cyberfantasies get the colossal scale they deserve in the movie version of his game, opening Friday. Expect dazzling effects in this, the first PC game adapted for film...
...Leader Dick Gephardt endorsed Vice President Al Gore for the presidential nomination, leaving the only other declared Democrat, Bill Bradley, to mine ever-shrinking political terrain. "The Gephardt endorsement makes Gore look even more formidable than before by shoring up the centrist vice president's connections to the liberal wing of the party," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson. Add to the mix Gore's "incredible fund-raising operation" and the "Democratic nomination looks like even more of a slam dunk for Gore," says Dickerson...