Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only a partial victory, but for Britain's Prime Minister James Callaghan every little bit helps these days. Meeting last week in the tacky resort city of Blackpool, 1,148 delegates of the powerful Trades Union Congress voted by a 3-to-2 margin to limit the future wage-increase demands of their individual unions to one a year. Callaghan would have preferred a third year of voluntary wage restraints in accordance with the government's incomes policy (TIME, July 18). The effect of the T.U.C. vote, even though it set no limits on the size of wage...
...cost of an ominous amount of internal strife. The opposition to the rule included delegates of the 1.9 million-member Transport and General Workers' Union and the militant 260,000-member National Union of Mineworkers, whose members rejected the recommendations of their leaders. Most of the margin of victory came from the 1.2 million-member Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, many of whose delegates tried in vain to challenge the pro-rule vote reported by President Hugh Scanlon. That move was scotched by Marie Patterson, a member of the transportation workers union, who said the challengers were...
...third quarter field goal by Peruvian soccer player Dave Schwartz (Dave Schwartz?) boosted the Eli margin to 10-0 before Whipple cranked up Brown's offense in the final quarter, as he hit Mark Farnham, gifted sibling of last year's Brown star, Bob, on a 52-yard touchdown pass with 13 minutes remaining...
...oddly warm Hanover, Dartmouth led from the outset, scoring touchdowns late in the first quarter and early in the fourth to lead by a 14-3 margin...
...include some property-protection guarantees that it advocated and, more important, by a promise to hold "working group discussions" with the party on future legislation. P.S.D. National Assembly members actually defied Leader Sa Carneiro's request that they abstain and voted with Scares, providing him with a healthy margin of victory...