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Before Britain’s Conservative Party could form a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats in May 2010, negotiators from both sides had the unenviable task of reconciling some of their less-than-complementary policies. One issue that required no wrangling, however, was the proposal for a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport, which was buckling under the pressure of operating at 98% capacity. David Cameron, the Conservative leader, had already broken with party tradition by opposing expansion at the airport, and the greener Liberal Democrats had long supported west London's NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) residents. Ironically, this easy consensus has now become one of the coalition's toughest dilemmas...
