Word: macdonaldization
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Even so, it is a long way from national uniqueness to abolishing a centuries-old political union. In the words of Margot MacDonald, a Nationalist leader in Glasgow's Govan district, the movement is more a "vehicle of expression" than a fully articulated political organization. Though it is gaining recruits at a rate of 1,000 a month, the S.N.P. has not yet won over a majority of Scots. Instead of independence, many would be satisfied-and may indeed prefer -the formation of a Scottish parliament operating within the framework of continuing union with England. Most important, nobody...
...THREE MUSKETEERS Directed by RICHARD LESTER Screenplay by GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER...
...last few figures came trickling in, it became clear that the Liberals were the key to what was rapidly developing into a constitutional crisis to match Britain's economic crisis. Not since 1924, when the first Labor government took office under Ramsay MacDonald as a minority government with support from the Liberals, had the political situation been so uncertain. It was possible that Queen Elizabeth could find herself in an extraordinarily awkward position for a modern constitutional monarch: deciding which party or parties would be best able to command support in the House of Commons and thus...
...other land owner around here. The sheriff come snooping around my place one night, and Mr. Cowart says to him, 'Go away. That boy don't do anything wrong. Leave him alone.' I guess it seems like I come from nowhere. Sometime that first year I go to Mr. MacDonald, looking for someone to cut my grass here, it was so overgrown then. And he tells me, 'Hey, I think we can make us both some money here.' I didn't know it was hay, but now I got a tractor made in 1948, the year I was born, ready...
...stand in the face of Conservative Party opposition is not without historical precedent. Throughout the 1920s the coal mines were consistently the scene of conflict between labor and management. Between 1921 and 1924 the industry prospered and the workers received a reasonable pay increase through the influence of Ramsey MacDonald's first Labor government. When foreign competition lowered industry profits, management decided to recoup its losses by cutting workers' wages. The solution was completely unacceptable to the miners, and despite intervention by a newly elected Conservative government, the miners walked off the job. The government's position in that case...