Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Free trade was Jesus Christ. They formed their joint stock companies and combines, and could count on/triple rows of sheds, eight miles of granite docks,/calm and deep water in all tides at Liverpool...
Bolstered by its first victory, the alliance campaign caravan is moving on to the Liverpool suburb of Crosby, where Shirley Williams will stand in the next by-election later this winter. If Williams can win in another traditionally Tory constituency, the S.D.P. bandwagon may really begin to roll...
Only the Earl of Liverpool, who was then the British Prime Minister, can be blamed, however, for the failure to purchase Florida and the lands along the Gulf Coast, which the Spanish, hard up as always, put on the market for ?1 million in 1819. If Lord Liverpool had not been so foolishly parsimonious, that sun-favored peninsula would now be a law-abiding and God-fearing American province instead of the petty dictatorship it is, whose only exports are drugs, disease and depravity...
...party deferred the potentially divisive issue of choosing an official leader, but there was one surprising move: Williams will run for Parliament in an upcoming election in Crosby, a suburban Liverpool constituency that has sent Tories to Parliament since 1918. It will be an interesting test of the S.D.P.'s growing strength. Summed up Williams: "We have to take impossible risks...
...Although unemployment has more than doubled from 5.4% when she took office in May 1979 to 12.4% last month, Thatcher adamantly believes a decline in the inflation rate, now 11.5% annually, is a precondition to economic growth. "I did not promise a quick answer," she told Parliament during the Liverpool riots. She is fighting to hold average-wage increases to 4% for the country's 7 million public sector employees (civil servants, the military, and workers in state-owned enterprises like British Steel...