Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rhode Island P 27 Labor backs Mondale in this union stronghold. But he must still battle Hart for Cranston supporters...
Labor dispatched scores of M.P.s to campaign for Benn, but Party Leader Neil Kinnock must have been of two minds about the Benn candidacy. Labor could not afford to lose in Chesterfield, a party stronghold for nearly 50 years. But Kinnock has worked hard during the past five months to smooth over the left-right split in the party, and Benn's return to the Commons might jeopardize that achievement. In the end, the result was probably just what Kinnock needed: a Labor victory, but narrow enough to keep Benn from claiming a mandate for left-wing insurrection...
Nevertheless, the imbalances of Parliament kept him in power. Populous and predominantly French-speaking Quebec is a traditional Liberal stronghold where the loyalty of numbers translated into seats and power. No matter that most of the country was colored Tory blue...
...disbanded independent trade union. His name had appeared on a government list of 69 priests under investigation for possible illegal activities. Since the Church of St. Joseph the Worker draws its members from the nearby Ursus tractor factory, a sprawling plant that was once famous as a union stronghold and a center of support for Solidarity, faith in the ideals of the movement is deeply rooted in the parish. Church members suspected that Glemp had yielded to growing pressure from the state to silence Nowak, and they decided to take action. Said a gray-haired parishioner who supported the protest...
...when his couture values were threatened, Saint Laurent will probably respond with fiendish flare. If he does not, the reason may be that he is content to reaffirm those values quietly through his designs. One emerges from this retrospective sensing that this is a defiant stronghold of luxury and glamour. As Saint Laurent writes in an essay for the museum's catalogue: "I believe that the couture must be preserved at all costs and the term, like a title, protected from debasement." -By Martha Duffy