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...succeeded in redirecting public attention from the alleged excesses committed by the military-backed government toward the boxing game. Facebook user Manny Payumo wrote how the ‘Thrilla in Manila’ led to fewer anti-government protests a week before the event: I was at the college of engineering during the Thrilla in Manila fight at Araneta Coliseum. The week into the...

...preventing closure, and the women returned to their machines on 18 March 1982 to work for Modewear Ltd. The dispute is highly significant in our understandings of women’s opposition to factory closure in the period. Cumbernauld: the growth of a new town Cumbernauld was one of five new towns designated in post-Second World War Scotland to combat the overcrowding of people and industry in Glasgow, and to take some of the ......

...work benefits – in case the Supreme Court’s Brexit verdict forces an early election. Big infrastructure projects are a favoured way to kickstart stalling economies because they can quickly create jobs in areas that most need them. They also generate income that mostly gets spent, boosting other activity. Such projects can pay for themselves through extra tax revenues...