Word: cheltenham
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Occasionally an athlete will transcend his limitations and capture the imagination of those assembled, electronically and personally. This year's winner at that end of the Games is a 24-year-old plasterer from Cheltenham, England. Michael Edwards, also known as "Eddie the Eagle," points his toes downslope and fearlessly launches himself on some of the shortest flights known to man. A sweet-tempered cross between fictional Ski Jumpers Spuds MacKenzie and Bob Uecker, Edwards finished dead last (but at least not dead) in the 70-meter jump. He scored with the media and the great unfit majority tuning...
Thatcher received another piece of bad news last week when a High Court judge overturned a government-imposed ban on unions at the government's top-secret listening post at Cheltenham. The Prime Minister ousted the unions last January, claiming that two earlier work stoppages had badly disrupted the round-the-clock monitoring of satellite, radio and other communications. Though the judge upheld the government's right to forbid unions at Cheltenham, he ruled that the Prime Minister should have first consulted labor leaders and the Cheltenham staff. The decision, which the government is appealing, fanned opposition-party...
...participation in NATO and the European Community. But on one issue Benn was unable to contain himself. Charging that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was planning to "destroy all unions," he condemned the government's decision to ban union membership at the supersecret Government Communications Headquarters at Cheltenham, 99 miles northwest of London, as "a major attack on civil liberties...
...series of small, short work stoppages in recent years at the intelligence facility, Britain's equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).* Arguing that union membership meant divided loyalties-one Thatcher aide insisted that "the union movement in this country is totally unprincipled"-the government gave Cheltenham's 8,000 employees three choices...
more than 90% of the Cheltenham facility's employees took the $1,500 and dropped their union affiliation...