Word: backers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospitals and schools. Thus even though the public workers' walkout finally seemed headed toward a settlement, there was an air of desperation about Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan when he appeared in Parliament. Waving a new 19-page peace treaty with his Labor government's once strongest backer, the powerful Trades Union Congress (T.U.C.), Callaghan declared: "We stand by this document, and we will win the election with...
...gossipy. Its inaugural issue, which subscribers receive this week, reads something like an Esquire magazine for lawyers−not surprising, since its editor is Steven Brill, 28. Esquire's law columnist, and American Lawyer's seed money came from Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers, the British backer of Esquire. "Our basic philosophy is nothing about the law. everything about lawyers and lawyering," says Brill. He promises investigative reporting on pettifoggery, news of the constantly shifting tides of power and prestige among law firms, and a regular column critiquing the performance of attorneys before the U.S. Supreme Court...
...notable as Chernenko's rise was the political eclipse of Kiril Mazurov, 64, a Politburo member and First Deputy Premier since 1965. He was ousted from both jobs last week "for reasons of health and at his own request." Mazurov's backer was Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 74, who is not in the best of health, and whose influence has long been on the decline...
...neighborhood about the liaison. In 1975, the Crown's prosecutor said, Thorpe's fellow defendant, Deakin, arranged a $20,000 murder contract with a former airline pilot, Andrew Newton, 31. The prosecution claims that Thorpe himself solicited money for the hit from an unwitting Liberal Party backer, then funneled the funds into the scheme. Bessell further said that he and Thorpe had attempted to swindle $500,000 out of that same backer...
...numbers are less important than the individual changes. The President lost five key liberal supporters in the Senate: Clark of Iowa, Thomas Mclntyre of New Hampshire, William Hathaway of Maine, Floyd Haskell of Colorado, Wendell Anderson of Minnesota. As head of the African Affairs Subcommittee, Clark was a strong backer of the Administration's policy of pressuring the white powers in southern Africa to grant black majority rule. He was defeated by Conservative...