Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impassioned speech last night at the Institute of Politics, Gerry Adams--the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)--called for immediate negotiations to unite the two halves of Ireland as an independent nation...
...think she would bring an important perspective to that wing of the history department," said Juliet Schor, director of studies of the committee on women's studies. "The implications are very positive. History is a central discipline in women's studies, and we have long wanted to have an American historian" in women's studies...
...other business. It's a "cooperative society," in operation not just to turn a profit but to give special benefits to its members. When members receive treatment no different from that of other customers, an implicit contract has been broken. While snazzy calendars and special discounts on Harvard wing chairs are nice, they're not enough...
...must be thinking most about the challenges he will face. The country he goes back to rule will be changed in difficult and unpredictable ways. The man who goes back to take charge is not the same one who fled the September 1991 coup d'etat under the protective wing of the U.S. ambassador. "The presidency and exile have been a lesson for me," he told TIME recently. "I learned that I am a leader, but also a statesman with grave responsibilities. It is easier to be a leader than a negotiator. It is easier to lead the Haitian people...
...transformation has been a painful and slow one. As a charismatic priest in the progressive wing of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristide was used to making a strong impression without bearing much responsibility for the political consequences. Fierce and theatrical behind the pulpit, he preached grand ideas of justice and equality, then left his parishioners to decide what to do. Often his sermons brought people out into the streets in a surge of anger, only to be fired upon by the army. With a priest's immunity, he castigated the most powerful sectors of society -- the wealthy elite, the business...