Word: callaghans
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...year policies of the Tories that have resulted in 16 per cent inflation and two million unemployed, the highest since World War II. In a change of tune since campaign day, he said the Thatcher government was cutting only $4 billion from the national budget--no more than the Callaghan Labor government proposed to slice off in its later days. Unemployment wasn't really as bad as it sounded, since there were many jobs floating around waiting to be filled. In fact, "the British trade unions are responsible for the present high level of unemployment...
...radicals were emboldened by an early victory. A conference vote increased their dominance of the National Executive Committee, stacking it 19 to 11 against Party Leader James Callaghan's moderates. The left-wingers later won a series of drastic new policy demands: withdrawal from the European Community, unilateral nuclear disarmament and a ban against U.S. cruise missiles on British soil. Although a proposal that Britain should quit NATO was rejected, the antinuclear pledges would effectively end active British participation in the Western military alliance...
...swirled Coca-Cola around in his wine glass and looked with contempt along his tilted nose at Carter. Schmidt dominated the personalities, France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was clearly second, and Carter was down there some place with Britain's jolly James Callaghan, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault...
Borg has dominated the tournament with his rip-roaring topspin since Gerald Ford was president and James Callaghan was prime minister. His face has reflected a certain serenity as he has wrecked his opponents methodically, in turn. But the image of Borg collapsing to his knees following the last point of every final match stays sharply etched in the mind of every tennis devotee as the Swede's strongest show of emotion...
...next day, the women split up. Mrs. Kennedy went to London and was warmly received by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She also talked with Opposition Leader James Callaghan and Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie. Barbara Rosen of New York City, the wife of Embassy Press Attaché Barry Rosen, talked at length in Bonn with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who stressed the necessity for patience in the embassy impasse. Jeanne Queen of Lincolnville, Me., the mother of Vice Consul Richard Queen, met in Rome with Vatican and Italian government officials. The fourth member of the group, Pearl Golacinski...