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    The Winter of Discontent was the period between November 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and...
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  • Look up Winter of Discontent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Winter of Discontent refers to the winter of 1978–79 in the United Kingdom, during...
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  • The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's Richard...
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    by recent memories of a series of industrial disputes and strikes during the winter of 1978–79, known as the Winter of Discontent, and the party focused...
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  • Winter of Discontent (Arabic: الشتا إللى فات; translit. El sheita elli fat) is a 2012 Egyptian drama film directed by Ibrahim El Batout. The film was selected...
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    stable, in the wake of significant industrial disputes and widespread strikes in the 1978–79 "Winter of Discontent", and the defeat of the referendum on...
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    Lemelin 2001, p. 42. Karabell 2001, p. 7. Parmet 1977, p. 75. Dykman, J. T. "Winter 1952". Eisenhower Institute. Archived from the original on August 7, 2008...
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    coupled with high inflation and industrial unrest – such as the Winter of Discontent – including having to seek loans from the International Monetary...
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    Dubai Film Festival for the Egyptian movie Winter of Discontent Cinema of Egypt List of Egyptian films of the 2000s pronounced separately Egyptian Arabic...
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  • Labour Isn't Working (category Political posters of the United Kingdom)
    the next year, after the government lost a vote of no confidence in the wake of the Winter of Discontent. It was designed by advertising agency Saatchi...
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    of the Callaghan ministry was presaged by the Winter of Discontent, a period of serious industrial discontent. This was followed by the election of Conservative...
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    power in 1974, but a series of strikes carried out by trade unions over the winter of 1978/79 (known as the Winter of Discontent) paralysed the country, and...
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    is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean...
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    Wilson and then James Callaghan. Escalating economic crises (the "Winter of Discontent") and a split with David Owen and others forming the Social Democratic...
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  • unrest Rebellion Riot Strike action State of emergency 19th century Luddites 1978–79 Winter of Discontent (UK) 1989 Purple Rain Revolt (South Africa)...
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    introduced a series of economic policies intended to reverse high inflation and Britain's struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an oncoming...
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    Behaviours (1938) Gilbert Frankau's Self Portrait: A Novel of His Own Life (1940) Winter of Discontent (1942) as Air Ministry Room 28 (1942) in the United States...
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    him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy". In 1979, in what came to be called the Winter of Discontent, British gravediggers and...
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    This artistic trajectory persisted with the subsequent release of The Winter Of Discontent in 2005. Throughout these creative transitions, the Generators...
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    FTSE 100 Index (category Lists of companies of the United Kingdom)
    "Footsie" /ˈfʊtsi/, is the United Kingdom's best-known stock market index of the 100 most highly capitalised blue chips listed on the London Stock Exchange...
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  • the reforms that the Parliament was now certain to make. In the winter of 1866 discontent increased as cold gripped the nation with great East End distress...
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  • excesses of the Winter of Discontent, claiming to represent "people with common sense". The party was formed by Edmund Iremonger, a member of the Conservative...
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    Utz, Richard. "Them Philologists: Philological Practices and Their Discontents from Nietzsche to Cerquiglini." The Year's Work in Medievalism 26 (2011):...
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  • Post-war consensus (category Economic history of the United Kingdom)
    of the 1970s. Mark Kesselman et al. argue: Britain was suffering economically without growth and with growing political discontent ... the "winter of...
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  • list of the exports of the United Kingdom. The UK exports to 160 nations. The UK is the fifth largest exporter. Data is for 2019, in millions of USD (United...
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    Imelda Staunton (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
     121. ISBN 978-0-415-27539-2. DeVries, Hilary (11 March 1987). "A winter of discontent at Britain's RSC. The company that exported 'Les Misérables' faces...
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    After the Winter of Discontent, when the UK was hit by numerous public sector strikes, the government of James Callaghan lost a vote of no confidence...
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  • in Retrospect. He became General Secretary of the TUC in 1973, leading it during the Winter of Discontent and the confrontations with Margaret Thatcher's...
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    FTSE 250 Index (category Lists of companies of the United Kingdom)
    stock market index that measures the real strength of the economy of the United Kingdom and consists of the 101st to the 350th mid-cap blue chip companies...
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    1979, the country suffered major widespread strikes known as the Winter of Discontent. All these factors were seen by academics, economists and politicians...
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