Word: concerns
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...middle class; now nearly half the country fits that description. And through incentives to small business, Thatcher has opened doors to entrepreneurs. For all that, some of Thatcher's countrymen clearly prefer the older Britain, slower paced, caring and imbued with a frayed gentility. Even some Conservatives have expressed concern that Thatcher has seemed callous toward the poor and the disadvantaged. For her part, the Prime Minister argues that she has turned a "lame-duck economy into a bulldog economy." Only vigorous growth, she insists, can support the level of social services Britons demand. The election, she said recently...
Thatcher's concern for the emerging middle class contrasts with her distaste for organized labor. In the three decades before she took over, wildcat strikes had torn holes in the country's economy. Major trade unions were considered more powerful than the government, and labor unrest helped topple two Prime Ministers, Edward Heath in 1974 and James Callaghan in 1979. Thatcher changed all that. Starting in 1980 she pushed through legislation to limit picketing rights, ban secondary picketing and make national unions financially responsible for the actions of their members. She has taken on a number of the country...
...billion securities industry hailed the decision. Eugene and Julia McMahon of Yonkers, N.Y., reviled it. In a ruling of vital concern to small investors everywhere, the U.S. Supreme Court last week came out in favor of arbitration over litigation as a means of settling disputes between stockbrokers and their clients...
...families fell by more than 16%. Suddenly the middle-class dream of a house, a car and three square meals for the kids carried a dual-income price tag. "What was once a problem only of poor families has now become a part of daily life and a basic concern of typical American families," says Sheila B. Kamerman, a professor of social policy and planning at Columbia University and co-author of Child Care: Facing the Hard Choices. Some women are angry that the feminist movement failed to foresee the conflict that would arise between work and family life. "Safe...
...most recent works, A Place with the Pigs, which debuted at the Yale Repertory Theater in April, and The Road to Mecca, which completed a short run at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C., last week, have no black characters and concern wholly different kinds of repression and liberation. Pigs, about a Soviet World War II deserter, as yet amounts to an unfinished work. Road, if not as poignant or politically apt as Master Harold, is Fugard's wisest, most balanced and most nearly universal play...