When sales did not meet projections, GLC sued Monsanto under federal securities laws.

He did not contest his seat on the GLC in 1973, having been selected as a candidate for Parliament.

The GLC did not come into its powers until 1 April 1965, but spent the first year setting up its committee structure and arranging with its predecessor authorities to take over.

Despite this taking of control of private companies through ( GLC ), the Fascist state did not nationalize any company ..

( GLC, London: Athlone Press, University of London, 1970 ), 31, notes that " The first theatre did not occupy the whole site ; in front of the west end there was a small yard ( B on fig.

The white paper concluded that the GLC and the MCCs should be abolished and replaced by a system of joint boards, to take over some of the county council's functions.

The Greater London Authority, a replacement authority for the GLC, was set up in 2000 with a transport executive called Transport for London ( TfL ) that took control from 3 July 2000.

The park was maintained by the LCC and later the GLC, but with the abolition of the GLC in 1986 control of the park was given to the London Borough of Bromley.

Among the first decisions taken under Davies ' control was to allow GLC Teachers paid leave to attend the " People's March for Jobs ", a protest against unemployment, but a rebellion by right-wing Labour councillors defeated the plan.

Finally, the Industrial Reconstruction Institute ( IRI ) was formed in January 1933 and took control of the bank-owned companies, suddenly giving Italy the largest industrial sector in Europe which made use of government-linked companies ( GLC ).

When Labour won control of the GLC in 1981, McIntosh was leader of the Labour group.

At the break-up of the GLC, Market Estate was transferred to the control of the local authority, London Borough of Islington.

The GLC was abolished in 1986 with responsibility for public transport removed two years earlier in 1984.

The term government-linked company ( GLC ) is sometimes used to refer to corporate entities that may be private or public ( listed on a stock exchange ) where an existing government owns a stake using a holding company.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

* London Transport Executive ( GLC ), the executive agency within the Greater London Council, responsible for public transport in Greater London from 1970 to 1984

However, the second term saw the GLC embark on a highly controversial policy over urban transport.

The GLC also had to cope with increasing road transport problems because of the increase in the number of cars.

The Greater London Council ( GLC ) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.

Council Chamber of the GLC, from the majority benches

Much of Thamesmead was initially built by the Greater London Council ( GLC ) for rent to families moving from overcrowded back-to-back Victorian housing ( also referred to as slums ) in south eastern parts of Inner London.

Other radical ideas were those of the GLC division architect Robert Rigg, including one taken from housing complexes in Sweden, where it was believed that lakes and canals helped to lower levels of crime and vandalism, mainly among the young.

Early in 1980 Haringey Council took over the trusteeship of Alexandra Palace from the GLC and decided to refurbish the building.

Despite formal objections from both Lambeth and Westminster Councils, the GLC ignored the objections, giving the bridge the appearance it has today.

He was chairman of the GLC from 1985 until its abolition in 1986.

He served on the GLC from 1970 to 1973, where he was vice-chairman of the Strategic Planning Authority.

McDonnell contended that accepting the cap would lead to a reduction in spending and prevent the GLC, which had already lost all of its funding from central government, from honoring the manifesto pledges Labour had been elected on in 1981.

The film was a return to the universe of Comic Strip films The Strike and GLC, where Hollywood remakes and distorts events from British historical events and portrayed Winston Churchill as a gun toting U. S. G. I.

He was a GLC councillor for Surbiton from 1983 to 1986 and was first elected to the London Assembly in 2000.

After the election Sir Reg appointed Peter Walker to head his private office despite protests from the Conservatives and the GLC officers.

Plummer's GLC pioneered the sale of council housing, and negotiated from the Government the power to run the London Underground and the rest of London Transport in 1969.

Plummer resigned the Leadership of the Conservative Group on the GLC that year, to be succeeded by Horace Cutler, and resigned from the Council in 1976.

Later that year he was appointed as a Research Actuary at Bacon and Woodrow, and resigned from the GLC and ILEA.

The ILEA was helped by a bail-out from the GLC for one year.

The band-informally known as " the Chain " or simply " the GLC "-released " You Knows I Loves You Baby ", a parody of 1980s love songs from the albums Greatest Hits and The Manifesto, on 13 December 2004 ; this reached number 22 in the UK chart.

GLC spoofed the show in a song called " Newport Bouncers ", and posted a video on YouTube containing visual and audio excerpts from the original documentary.

On 7 March 2006, it was reported that the GLC had been dropped from Atlantic Records a couple of months previously and were now going to release material on their own Gold Dust Records, which was formed on 7 March 2006 by Adam Hussain.

* Rhys from GLC aka P. Xain

When the GLC had been created, many had assumed it would be a natural Conservative victory, but due to the exclusion of some Conservative-voting areas from the new boundaries and to the national trend of some dissatisfaction with the Conservative government and enthusiasm for the Labour opposition, Labour won a narrow victory in votes.

The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.

Greater London originally had a two-tier system of local government, with the Greater London Council ( GLC ) sharing power with the City of London Corporation ( governing the small City of London ) and the 32 London borough councils.

Due to this outward expansion, in 1965 the old County of London ( which by now only covered part of the London conurbation ) and the London County Council were abolished, and the much larger area of Greater London was established with a new Greater London Council ( GLC ) to administer it, along with 32 new London boroughs.

In the early 1980s political disputes between the GLC run by Ken Livingstone and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher led to the GLC's abolition in 1986, with most of its powers relegated to the London boroughs.

The new authority had similar powers to the old GLC, but was made up of a directly elected Mayor and a London Assembly.

The legislation creating the Greater London Council ( GLC ) was already passed in 1963 when the London Transport Board was created.

The GLC broadly controlled only those services within the boundaries of Greater London.

Many people have surmised that the decision to abolish the GLC was made because of the existence of a high-spending left-wing Labour administration under Livingstone, although pressure for the abolition of the GLC had arisen before Mr Livingstone took over, and was largely driven by the belief among the outer London Borough councils that they could perform the functions of the GLC just as well.

On abolition, the strategic functions of the GLC transferred to bodies controlled by central government or joint boards nominated by the London Borough councils.