Word: macdonald
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...stand in the face of Conservative Party opposition is not without historical precedent. Throughout the 1920s the coal mines were consistently the scene of conflict between labor and management. Between 1921 and 1924 the industry prospered and the workers received a reasonable pay increase through the influence of Ramsey MacDonald's first Labor government. When foreign competition lowered industry profits, management decided to recoup its losses by cutting workers' wages. The solution was completely unacceptable to the miners, and despite intervention by a newly elected Conservative government, the miners walked off the job. The government's position in that case...
...outlook for the U.S. is even less promising. Last week a Canadian delegation led by Energy Minister Donald Macdonald went to Washington to confer with Energy Chief William Simon and other U.S. officials. Canada is the only Western nation that pumps more oil than it consumes, but the Canadians told their American counterparts that Canada will soon be burning all the oil that it can produce. In the meantime, there is little chance that the export tax will be significantly reduced...
Kroc is the 71-year-old chairman of the board of the MacDonald's hamburger chain...
Meanwhile, in New York, former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey defeated his landlord in a legal battle to keep from being evicted from the Broadway restaurant he has run for 37 years. Jack Dempsey's does not serve MacDonald's burgers...
Everything is exaggerated in 2173--the government makes Portuguese Angola look like Summerhill, farmers electronically grow bananas as big as canoes, MacDonald's proclaims 750,000,000,000,000,000,etc., served--so Allen's predicament is intensified. He had enough trouble with New York, God knows, and now this. Alone in the future, not knowing why, he's hunted down as "the alien." Audiences, who always identified with Allen's alienation, feel no more at home in a hostile 2173 than he does. This is a change from the earlier Allen: Before there was a hint that the world...