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Heath and attempted
It attempted to depict the totality of the mid-Victorian social experience in a single image, depicting ' navvies ' digging up a road, Heath Street in Hampstead, London, and disrupting the old social hierarchies as they did so.
Earlier in the 1970s, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath ( elected in 1970 ) had attempted to reduce trade union powers due to the rising level of strikes across the country.
Heath also attempted to curb union power with the Industrial Relations Act 1971, and had hoped to deregulate the economy and make a transfer from direct to indirect taxation.
However rising unemployment in 1972 caused Heath to reflate the economy at the cost of high inflation, which he attempted to control by prices and incomes policy.
Members of Parliament, already angry with Charles, were further enraged when Selden discovered that Heath had attempted to have the decision in the five knights case enrolled as binding precedent on the legality of the forced loans, pressuring the clerk of the King's Bench to do so ; MPs reacted by declaring the judgment illegal.
For example, in the hung parliament in 1974, the serving Prime Minister Edward Heath attempted to remain in power but was unable to form a working majority.
When the monarchy was restored, Heath's heirs attempted to reassert their claim to the land, but Charles II decided that Heath ’ s claim was no longer valid and gave it to the Lords Proprietors.
Early on, she unsuccessfully attempted to seduce Heath, so as to expose him as a fraud.
In October and November 1930, Florbela twice attempted suicide, shortly before the publication of her last book Charneca em Flor ( Heath in Bloom ).
With the reintroduction of Formula One cars to the World Championship in, Abecassis and Heath attempted to produce a competitive car using the 2. 5-litre version of the Alta engine but it was not a success ; HWM cars only contested two further Grand Prix events after 1953.
As such he was closely involved in the protests over the Heath government's Industrial Relations Act, which attempted to restrict the powers of trade unions.

Heath and increasingly
However, he grew increasingly opposed to the Heath government's economic strategy, which had seen a ' U-turn ' in favour of intervention in industry in 1972.
Due to the desirability of the area and the quality of local schools Kings Heath is steadily becoming gentrified, with houses becoming increasingly unaffordable for local people.
The Knighton Heath Period marks the end of the rich Wessex culture and the increasingly wider use of Deverel-Rimbury culture pottery.
* ( 2001 ) The phrasing was used to humorous effect in the movie Josie and the Pussycats, with increasingly referential claims that, " Pink is the new red ", " Orange is the new pink " and " Heath Ledger is the new Matt Damon.

Heath and trade
After extensive negotiations, involving detailed agreements about the UK's agricultural trade with Commonwealth countries such as New Zealand, British entry was vetoed by the French President, Charles de Gaulle, at a press conference in January 1963-much to the disappointment of Heath, who was a firm supporter of European common market membership for the United Kingdom.
Ridley had long been acutely aware of the threat the trade unions could pose to the execution of Conservative policies and, in the wake of the Heath government's union difficulties, had authored the Ridley Plan, which set out means of dealing with the trade unions and was a prototype for later developments.
The Institute became a centre for educational meetings, social gatherings and trade union activities in Cradley Heath.
The paper continued in the same vein after Edward Heath won the 1970 general election, opposing his Tory government's trade union legislation between 1970 and 1974 and placing itself at the head of opposition to Heath's negotiations for Britain to join the EEC.
According to Grant Longman's Robberies on Bushey Heath, the road from Bushey Heath to Stanmore is said to be where the highwaymen lurked, ready to raid the dozen or so caravans that passed through Bushey Heath daily, carrying money from trade in London.
" On November 10, 1978, Lyle was part of a major trade that sent him, along with Mike Heath, Larry McCall, Dave Rajsich, Domingo Ramos and $ 400, 000, to the Texas Rangers in exchange for Juan Beníquez, Mike Griffin, Paul Mirabella, Dave Righetti, and Greg Jemison.
After a short period, however, Heath abandoned the 1970 manifesto in the face of bitter opposition from the trade unions.
The events took place against the background of a clash between the Conservative government of Edward Heath and the trade union movement, involving the first national miners ’ strike in Britain since 1926, with mass picketing, and clashes between police and workers.
For this, Captain Heath was sent to Bengal with 160 soldiers either to fight and win against the forces of the Governor or to bring back all the properties of the company to Madras and abandon the trade in Bengal.
* 1970: Conservative Party, led by Edward Heath, " But the Conservatives provide the better hope on at least three grounds: restoring some incentives to risk-taking, not destroying savings through Mr Crossman's pension scheme, and making some overdue advance towards trade union reform.

Heath and union
In his memoirs, Lamont wrote that he was " horrified " when Ted Heath in 1972 announced Britain that it was accepting the Werner Plan for monetary union.
Having earlier re-established relations with the miners ' union leaders in February 1972, Heath appointed Jellicoe " energy supremo " to restore power supplies around the time of the Three-Day Week and had him set up and chair a Civil Contingencies Unit, which was, when an internal crisis arose, to operate through " COBRA " ( Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms ).

Heath and movement
Frederic Heath, the first historian of the movement, recounted the gathering in a 1900 book:
The main members of this movement are Vuk Ćosić, Jodi. org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, and Heath Bunting ( irational. org, Daniel García Andújar, Heath Bunting, Rachel Baker and Minerva Cuevas ).
Hence, they decided on a wide turning movement via Chieveley, Winterbourne and Wickham Heath, against Prince Maurice's position.
A few weeks later, there was another meeting while the army was camped at Thriplow Heath near Royston, the soldiers refused the offers made by Parliament, and the agitators demanded a march towards London and the " purging " of the House of Commons, which did not happen, the movement gradually disintegrating

Heath and which
Absalon probably did not take part in the following battle of Grathe Heath in 1157, in which Sweyn was defeated and slain and led to Valdemar ascending the Danish throne.
Balsall Heath initially had a reasonably affluent population, which can still be seen in the dilapidated grandeur of some of the larger houses.
In July 2005 Balsall Heath was hit by a tornado, which devastated many buildings around Church Road and Ladypool Road.
Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.
In The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a comic twist was added to rhyming slang by way of spurious and fabricated examples which a young man had laboriously to explain to his father ( e. g. ' dustbins ' meaning ' children ', as in ' dustbin lids ' = ' kids '; ' Teds ' being ' Ted Heath ' and thus ' teeth '; and even ' Chitty Chitty ' being ' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ', and thus ' rhyming slang '...).
The five primary schools in the immediate vicinity of Kesgrave are Beacon Hill Primary School, Birchwood Primary School, Cedarwood Primary School the building of which was awarded a Civic Trust Award in 2003, Gorseland Primary School and Heath Primary School.
The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.
Following the league's dissolution after only one season, Newton Heath joined the newly formed Football Alliance, which ran for three seasons before being merged with the Football League.
Powell's speeches and TV interviews throughout his political life displayed a suspicion towards " the Establishment " in general, and by the 1980s there was a regular expectation that he would make some sort of speech or act in a way designed to upset the government and ensure he would not be offered a life peerage ( and thus be transferred to the House of Lords ), which, some believe, had not any intention of accepting so long as Edward Heath sat in the Commons.
This policy was controversial with the public and even some of her own Members of Parliament ( MPs ) ( as well as former Conservative prime ministers Harold Macmillanand Edward Heath ), but her success in the Falklands war led to a recovery in her popularity which contributed to the Conservative victory in the 1983 general election.
Instead, he wrote an orchestral piece based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex, a work that became Egdon Heath and which was first performed a month after Hardy ’ s death, in his memory.
Following a failed attempt to establish a coalition with the Liberals, Heath conceded power to a minority Labour government under Harold Wilson, which won a small majority in a second election in October that year.
After demobilisation as a Lieutenant-colonel in August 1946, Heath joined the Honourable Artillery Company, in which he remained active throughout the 1950s, rising to Commanding Officer of the Second Battalion ; a portrait of him in full dress uniform still hangs in the HAC's Long Room.
Heath made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 26 June 1950, in which he appealed to the Labour Government to participate in the Schuman Plan.
Heath sacked Enoch Powell from the Shadow Cabinet in April 1968, shortly after Powell made his inflammatory " Rivers of Blood " speech which criticised Commonwealth immigration to the United Kingdom.
Despite these measures, however, the Heath Government encouraged a significant increase in welfare spending, and Thatcher blocked Macleod's other posthumous Education policy: the abolition of the Open University, which had recently been founded by the preceding Labour Government.
Opposed to unemployment on moral grounds, Heath encouraged a famous " U-Turn " in economic policy that precipitated what became known as the “ Barber boom .” This was a two-range process involving the budgets of 1972 and 1973, the former of which pumped £ 2. 5 billion into the economy in increased pensions and benefits and tax reductions.
A memorial service was held for Heath in Westminster Abbey on 8 November 2005 which was attended by two thousand people.
Economic conditions during the 1970s were becoming more difficult for the UK and many other western economies as a result of the ending of the Bretton Woods Agreement and the 1973 oil shock, and the Heath government in its turn was buffeted by economic adversity and industrial unrest ( notably including confrontation with the coalminers which led to the Three-day week ) towards the end of 1973, and on 7 February 1974 ( with the crisis still ongoing ) Heath called a snap election for 28 February.
Circular 4 / 74 ( 1974 ) renewed pressure for moves towards comprehensive education ( progress of which had stalled under the Heath Government ), while the industrial relations legislation passed under Edward Heath was repealed.

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