Into the use of contaminated products.
This sense of time collapsed in on itself or the tentative working towards a barely imagined society itself or the past as it was actually experienced can be consigned to history, characterises the peculiar grey of the last decade, particularly in Northern Ireland. The Downing Street Declaration in late 1993, followed by the ceasefires declared the following year, opened the way for the negotiations that culminated with the establishment of a power-sharing executive in the Stormont Assembly in Belfast, under the Good Friday Agreement of April 1998. The Agreement changed the nature of sovereignty North and South of the border, with the devolution of Westminster's power to Stormont. ...>>>

Multinationals 2
The point, then, is not that economic policy was irrelevant; rather that 'light' planning was only one element in a larger set of state initiatives whose cumulative effect assisted in propelling the economy forward. Other aspects of government policy conducive to growth were higher levels of public investment and expenditure, although these were part cause, part effect of the improved performance overall.' What is most significant about domestic policy, as it evolved over time, was that it was well positioned to take advantage of opportunities in the international economy, since the key to industrial growth for a small, relatively open economy ultimately lay outside Ireland. During the 1960s inter- national trade was buoyant; the terms of trade moved in Ireland's favour (and also displayed much less instability than in the two preceding decades); and large flows of capital and enterprise became available to peripheral regions of the world economy. The last, representing a qualitatively new phase in the global organisation of manufacturing activity, was to prove of critical importance for the two Irish economies. ...>>>