Word: wembley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fight, which occurred at a special Labor Party meeting held in London's Wembley Conference Center, was intense and bitter, but in the end it was a rout. By a margin of 54% to 46%, the conference of Members of Parliament, labor unions and grass-roots party organizers voted to strip M.P.s of their traditional right to elect their own leader. That responsibility will go in the future to a new electoral college in which the more militant unions and the radical local party organizers will hold 70% of the power against only 30% for the M.P.s. Party Leader...
...result proved too much for irate right-wing M.P.s, and within hours of the Wembley vote, the exodus had started...
Brockton's Marvelous Marvin Hagler will take on Britain's Alan Minter today in a scheduled 15-round world middleweight championship bout at Wembley Stadium in London, England...