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decomposition of labour
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International Labour Organization
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sexual division of labour
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New Zealand Labour Party
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John Major (politician)
John Major 1943-, British statesman, b. John Major Ball. Raised in a working-class area of London, he was elected to Lambeth borough council (1968-71) and entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1979. He became Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's chief secretary to the Treasury in 1987, foreign... Read more |
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William Jefferson Hague
William Jefferson Hague hāg , 1961-, British politician, leader (1997-2001) of the Conservative party , b. Rotherham, Yorkshire. After graduating from Oxford, he worked briefly in industry, then (1989) won election to Parliament. In 1995, Conservative prime minister John Major named Hague... Read more |
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Northern Ireland Labour Party
Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), founded in 1924. It was based on the Belfast Labour Party, originally founded in 1893 as part of the Independent Labour Party. Before the First World War, labour politics in Belfast made advances comparable to those achieved in British cities, but thereafter... Read more |
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Leonard James Callaghan Baron Callaghan of Cardiff
Leonard James Callaghan Callaghan of Cardiff, Baron 1912-2005, British statesman. He was first elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1945. As chancellor of the exchequer (1964-67), he introduced extremely controversial taxation policies, including employment taxes; he resigned when he was... Read more |
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Wat Tyler
Wat Tyler d. 1381, English rebel. His given name appears in full as Walter; his surname signifies the trade of a roof tiler. He came into prominence as the leader of the rebellion of 1381, known as the Peasants' Revolt. The revolt had its origins in the plague of 1348-49, which had swept away... Read more |
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SUBJECT
...sentence topic is not always clear: Labour and Conservative MPs clashed angrily yesterday over the poll tax. Is the topic of the sentence the MPs or the poll tax? (2) The logical subject refers... |
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taxation
...divided into indirect taxes (levied on sales...which governs a good tax system. Adam Smith...of Nations, that taxes should be based on...and economical tax to collect involves...kind; most notably labour services or agricultural...duties) ... |
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Liberal Democrats
...of the party were dogged by low opinion poll ratings and bad local, European, and...party fought on a promise to raise income tax by a penny to be spent on education, and...the Welsh Assembly, where they joined Labour in a governing pact. In 2001, led by... |
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Peasants Revolt
...Rebellion in England. The immediate provocation was a poll tax (1380). Fundamental causes were resentment at feudal...which were held down artificially despite the shortage of labour after the Black Death. Roused by a rebel priest, John... |
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Lynch, Jack
...considerable measure of success at the polls: he led his party to victory in June...even though a coalition of Fine Gael and Labour took sufficient seats to form a government...increased state expenditure and simultaneous tax reductions. The result, particularly... |
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Major, John
...traumatic demise. He ended the unpopular poll tax and signed the Maastricht Treaty...their unassailable advantage over the Labour Party before. His problems were compounded...resourceful Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party, and by perceptions of ... |
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Labour widens polls lead in tax backlash.
LABOUR activists were celebrating...against the SNP's tax plans was working...to two new opinion polls. An ICM poll gave Labour a 13...Scottish Opinion poll which put the Nationalists...per cent. In both polls ... |
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New Zealand opposition gets boost in polls with proposed tax cuts, but still...
...gained in popularity polls after proposing broad tax cuts but still trails the governing Labour Party less than three...two new opinion polls showed Sunday.Labour...Colmar Brunton" poll released Sunday...of National. The ... |
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Blair rules out change to top rate income tax; Latest poll shows Labour ahead...
...the top rate of income tax, only hours after Labour launched its latest general...omitted any reference to tax. On the first full day...eclipsed by the first polls of the campaign, with...Tories in today's ICM poll for the Times, the biggest ... |
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TARTAN TAX REVOLT; Poll boost for Labour's no-increase pledge.(News)
...going off paying a tartan tax to fund better hospitals...exclusive Sunday Mail poll shows the mood in Scotland...opposition to the idea in any poll so far. If that trend...They've pledged that Labour will not use the Parliament...people could have lower ... |
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Labour may be preparing its own poll tax disaster
...not notice - the council tax will still go up - but...from councils but from Labour MPs in southern England...average increases in council tax. What a wonderful wheeze...increased the rates, poll tax and council ... |
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Council tax: the new battlefield; YEARS AFTER THE POLL TAX RIOTS, LABOUR...
...WOMACK RIOTING over the poll tax, officially the community...marched in protest against the poll tax at a rally in London...wanted to protest because the poll tax was unfair. It took...pounds sterling]688 when ... |
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Blitz on pounds 887m poll tax debts; Labour pledge to hunt dodgers.(News)
Labour is to claw back missing millions owed by Scots poll tax and council tax dodgers. New...of it from the days of the poll tax. Edinburgh still has pounds...including pounds 75million in poll ... |
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BLAIR ORDERS U-TURN ON TARTAN TAX POLL; MORE CONFUSION OVER LABOUR'S POLICY...
...Byline: BENEDICT BROGAN LABOUR'S plan for a second...for the extra devolution poll. The change is Labour...Scottish parliament with tax raising powers in the...lower the standard rate of tax by up to 3p. Labour ... |
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Shock for Labour as polls reject tax rises.
...Byline: GRAEME WILSON LABOUR was rocked last night as two polls revealed deep public scepticism about tax rises for the NHS...plans to increase taxes by up to [pound...according to an ICM poll. The same survey...A separate NOP ... |
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Labour denies poll slump a verdict on tax.
...Party also saw a high poll result of 3 per cent...was at 0.5 per cent. Labour leader Phil Goff was...on 54 per cent. The poll came on the day National counterattacked on Labour's new tax policy _ claiming it...21 billion in extra ... |
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