Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different opinion. Scargill believes the state should continue to mine the pits until the store of coal is totally exhausted to avoid firing or relocating miners until absolutely necessary. He claims that a 1974 labor-management agreement on coal policy, approved after a lengthy strike that brought down Edward Heath's Conservative government in that same year, contains no mention of pit closings. (MacGregor and his allies have parried this charge with full page newspaper ads quoting statements by both Scargill and the 1974 report which concede that some minus must inevitably close...
...with the Presidency of Bay State folk hero John F. Kennedy '40 and the growth of younger brother Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), the state took a strong turn toward the new Democratic liberalism of active government participation at home and abroad...
...joined the District of Columbia as the only parts of the country supporting Democrat George S. McGovern against incumbent President Richard M. Brooke, earning in the process the appelation. The People's Republic of Massachusetts." But same year also saw the reelection of the only Black Senator since Reconstruction, Edward M. Brooke, a liberal Republican who was considered one of the best politicians in the state...
...Hatch, Jr. in '78, and Senator Ed Brooke in '78, who lost to Democrats. The reason, he says, is that they did not represent their real constituency, the working class Republicans and the conservative Democrats that booted Dukakis out of office in '78 in favor of right-wing Democrat Edward J. King...
Mulroney and Turner differed so little on the issues that New Democratic Party Leader Edward Broadbent dubbed them "MasterCard and Visa." Both candidates, for example, pledged to cut the government's deficit of $23 billion and increase defense spending. At times the only real squabble between them seemed to be how many promises Mulroney had made; by Turner's count, the Tory had made 338. One Liberal TV ad featured a shopping cart crammed with packages at a cash register; the items were labeled "Tory promises," but none carried prices...