Word: labors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with hostility as he rose to speak. Unruffled, the former Prime Minister delivered a dignified defense of his record: "I claim without apology, I claim proudly, a fine record of manifesto achievements carried out by a minority government." The blame, he implied, lay with the winter of strikes and labor unrest that had set the national mood for the Tory victory. He concluded with a call for unity: "Let's avoid party-bashing among each other. Let's have a bit of Tory-bashing for a change." The plea drew a tepid response...
...Anthony Wedgwood Benn), he was weaned on politics. At Oxford, where he received an M.A. in history, Benn was president of the select Oxford Union and a masterly debater. He won the first of his twelve elections to Parliament from Bristol South-East in 1950 and served in several Labor Cabinets...
...rally the demoralized moderates, former Education Minister Shirley Williams, who lost her parliamentary seat last May, exhorted them to "stand up and start fighting for yourselves!" Though it was too late to beat the leftists at Brighton, the moderates have now established a so-called Committee for a Labor Victory in an effort to regain control of the party. Meanwhile, both sides of the mangled party will be fighting each other as well as the Tory government, which could only cheer Prime Minister Thatcher. As the conservative Daily Express wryly noted, "With enemies like that, who needs friends...
...taunt was the kind of hostility that diehard Afrikaners usually direct at opponents of South Africa's ruling National Party and its harsh policy of apartheid. This time, however, the target was none other than Stephanus ("Fanie") Botha, Labor Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister P.W. Botha. To the horror of the Nationals' conservative verkrampte wing, Botha has proposed the progressive dismantling of "petty apartheid," the complex web of racial laws and regulations that has governed virtually every aspect of South African life since the Afrikaners gained political control...
...lowest in a decade. It is selling 15% fewer cars than it did last year (vs. 9% for Chrysler). With a 75-day backlog of unsold cars, Ford has had to lay off indefinitely 22,600 hourly workers, about 10% of its labor force...