Word: callaghans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers on short-to medium-range flights. Simultaneously the British government, which owns the two companies, was being pressed by the French-German-Spanish owners of Airbus Industrie to join them instead in making a narrow-bodied Airbus. Playing a kind of commercial Solomon, Prime Minister James Callaghan tried to win for Britain a piece of both projects...
...answer that Britain is returning to better economic times-and ask whether it will continue to do so under Tory rule. Thanks in large part to North Sea oil, and despite the unemployment problem, Britain has steadily climbed out of its economic morass of three years ago. Prime Minister Callaghan feels his government deserves the credit. One of his last acts before Parliament recessed was to secure endorsement of a 5% suggested national limit on wage increases. Previous Labor-inspired wage guidelines have been instrumental in reducing Britain's inflation rate to 7.5%, from...
...close is the election race that, in a departure from tradition, the personalities of the competing leaders will make a significant difference. With his avuncular "Sunny Jim" image, Callaghan still ranks six points ahead of Thatcher in the popularity polls, although lately she has impressively narrowed...
...head-to-head parliamentary debates, some of which are now nationally broadcast on BBC radio, the Prime Minister has consistently outpointed his Tory challenger. As if in recognition of a tough election fight ahead, Callaghan has begun to launch a few harpoons at his rival. Borrowing from Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, for example, the Prime Minister has scoffed at Thatcher in the Commons as "Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long." Thatcher, who can indeed be starchy at times, gave an uninspired response to that pointed sally, in which...
...creation of an all-new plane that Boeing is looking for partners to help do the work and share the cost. In no other industry are there such large international combines?or so much high-level politicking. When he visited Jimmy Carter last June, British Prime Minister James Callaghan discussed an Anglo-American aviation linkup. British Aerospace, a nationalized collection of airframe and weapon makers, is being courted by the European Airbus consortium and Boeing. As a start, Boeing wants British Aerospace to make the wings for its planned narrow-bodied, 150-passenger...