Word: bor
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...Front had fully expected to win big, its candidate ran a poor second to the Colorados. Nationwide the Front polled a respectable but unspectacular 16% of the vote, trailing both the Blancos (34%) and the Colorados (35%). The winning Colorado presidential candidate, wealthy, taciturn Minister of Agriculture Juan M. Bor-daberry, 43, is expected to continue Pacheco's tough response to Uruguay's political and economic problems...
Events seemed to justify Heath's doomsaying. The four-day national newspaper strike in early June and a slowdown by doctors unsettled the la bor scene. More important, the trade figures for May, made public only three days before the election, showed a sharp dip of $74 million, shaking voters' confidence in Wilson's assurances about the economy's strength...