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...fractious Republican Party faces a twofold dilemma: How can it reach out to the independents and Democrats it needs and still keep its own restive conservatives, who control so much of the party's machinery? Given the political realities, odds are heavily against the Republicans in November. But Ford does have a fighting chance, and the Democratic strategists know that Carter is no shoo...
...infinite negotiations as the head of the household attempts to accommodate everyone's tastes and whims. Naturally he whims some, loses some, in an effort to schedule the Cooperstown baseball shrine, an art gallery, an antique market and a genuine prehistoric dinosaur park and rock garden all in one fractious, febrile day. Still, it might be instructive to conjure Dickens, Trollope and Twain on the road in '76, launched in their camper in the northeastern corner of the U.S. for a swift, spirited, perforce highly selective, swing through the nation. Twain, naturally, wants to drive...
...same time, the Labor government was able to offer investors further proof that it is gaining in its battle against Britain's destructive inflation, now running at an annual rate of about 13%. The often fractious coal miners' union voted to accept an agreement between the government and the leadership of the Trades Union Council to hold wage increases to an average of 4½%, or about $4.61 a week, for the year beginning Aug. 1. The 11 million members of the T.U.C.'s constituent unions are widely expected to ratify the agreement in balloting this week...
...polls calmly, as if benumbed, to cast ballots in the nation's first free parliamentary elections in half a century. As they did a year ago, in elections for a Constituent Assembly, the returns suggested that if there was a consensus of any kind among Portugal's fractious electorate, it was against extreme politics of all shades...
Powerful, fractious and strike prone, Britain's labor unions have contributed heavily over the years to the sagging productivity and destructive wage inflation that have brought their nation to the brink of economic disaster. Last summer it took the threat of imminent economic collapse to win agreement by the unions to a voluntary limit on pay. This week Britain faces another crucial test of its ability to get labor cooperation in surmounting the nation's frightening economic woes. Leaders of the Trades Union Congress have set themselves a deadline of Wednesday for deciding whether to agree...