Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next year, Labor hopes, voters will have learned to live with stringent new consumer taxes that have helped boost living costs 4%, the biggest six-month gain in 13 years. Meanwhile the tax bite has given the Conservatives a clear edge over Labor in local elections. If Britons were to vote the same way nationally tomorrow, by the Economist's reckoning, they might unseat one-third of all Labor M.P.s and return the Tories to power with a majority of more than...
...Hungary's traditional market, are steadily being trimmed by the Common Market's rising tariff barriers. Thus, Kallai and Komocsin are plainly better suited than Kadar for such tasks as negotiating more favorable trade arrangements with the West; Brutyo and Gaspar have obviously been picked to boost labor productivity. They will have no easy job. Goldbricking and moonlighting have become the nation's favorite sports. As a popular gag inquires, "Why are Hungarians so happy building socialism?" Answer: "It's easier than working...
Even the Tories could not fault Labor's timing. Despite a quicksilver majority of three, Wilson has managed to push through his most unpalatable legislation, a series of belt-tightening measures designed to whip Britain's flabby economy into competitive trim. The one issue that might conceivably have toppled the government, steel nationalization, has been discreetly shelved until the next parliamentary session, starting in November. In the breathing spell thus gained, Wilson aims to woo the Liberal Party to his side, thereby boosting his effective majority to a relatively dependable...
...nine uneasy months since the Labor government came to power, Britain has lived in day-to-day expectation of another general election. Last week Prime Minister Harold Wilson ended the suspense. "I do not believe," he pronounced, "that the British people want an election." At any rate, Harold Wilson no longer wants one-this year...
...struggling to develop and hold their rich, empty western outpost in an Asia seething with unrest. With only 11 million humans in a land as big as the continental U.S., Australia is rushing to completion $4 billion worth of industrial projects over the next five years. The labor shortage is so severe that in some skilled occupations there are 15 jobs for every applicant. Despite an influx of 1,800,000 immigrants since 1945, and a record 142,000 in the fiscal year that ended last week, Australia, says Labor Minister William McMahon, "is still crying out for more migrants...