Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wider support for slashing subway and bus fares, his policies infuriated many Britons. One of them was Thatcher, who pushed legislation through Parliament abolishing the council in 1986. Out of a job, Livingstone was elected to the House last year from Brent East, in northwest London. His fellow Labor M.P.s shunned him, but party rank and file later elected him to a seat on Labor's ruling council...
...Viet Nam and predicting that the I.R.A. would win the conflict. Livingstone defied Kinnock by demanding that Britain cut its defense budget and withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. By warning of a civil war within the party, he embarrassed Kinnock into dropping plans for a review of Labor's nonnuclear defense policy...
Emotions ran so high before the vote that Owen's backers refused to sleep in the same hotel as the promerger forces. Social Democratic President Shirley Williams angrily accused Owen, a former Labor Foreign Minister, of "acting with impetuosity at the moment of crisis" and warned that "all of us will be losers" if the proposed union did not pass. "Mergerites" tried to block a rally that Owen had called to launch his group, but they backed down after both sides assembled legal teams...
...blood between the two has been flowing since early last year, when Hendrickse sauntered into the surf at a whites-only beach as a demonstration against apartheid. Hendrickse, whose Labor Party holds 76 of the colored House's 85 seats, opposes Botha's key political legislation this year, including several amendments to the Group Areas Act, which chops South Africa into segregated areas...
...deferral must be approved by all three houses. Hendrickse says he will pass the measure only if Botha will agree to repeal, not just amend, the Group Areas Act. As Hendrickse told Botha, "If you continue fiddling with the Group Areas Act without making radical changes, the Labor Party will have no other option than to send you back to the voting polls...