Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thousands of British protesters paraded through London Saturday, led by Glenys Kinnock, wife of Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock. They observed a minute of silence as a siren sounded, symbolizing a nuclear warning...
Life has been tough at General Motors. The No. 1 U.S. automaker has shut plants, laid off thousands of workers and otherwise struggled to regain an < eroding market share. Now, with labor contract talks coming soon, GM is taking a new step on the road to austerity: lavish annual cash bonuses for executives will be replaced by stock options tied to GM's financial performance...
...audience of some 500 mostly foreign guests, Gaddafi inexplicably turned around and left. Aides could not account for the mercurial leader's sudden exit, which left the four-day anti- American get-together to speakers ranging from American Indian militants to seasoned '60s radicals and at least one British Labor...
Alfonsin credited the political opposition, labor organizations and business leaders for his victory over the mutinous officers. He was right to do so. In Argentina, contentious factions still contend, but they also band together to oppose any who would replace the uncertain stability of democracy with the certain trauma that would follow its over-throw...
...Zealand, meanwhile, Labor Party Prime Minister David Lange said he had agreed to let U.S. military aircraft land at the Christchurch air base on South Island. The arrangement, which Lange revealed last week under pressure in parliament, seems to make a mockery of his opposition to nuclear-armed ships docking in New Zealand ports. Lange's stand on that issue in 1985 effectively destroyed the ANZUS mutual defense treaty between the U.S., New Zealand and Australia...