Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Heath became Prime Minister when Labor was upset in the 1970 election, and Thatcher was soon named Secretary of State for Education and Science, where she gained a reputation for toughness. While demanding more money for her department, she cut out free milk for elementary school children, thus earning the cruel sobriquet "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher." Heath had agreed to her appointment only because he felt it was good politics to have a woman in the Cabinet. "The chemistry between them was not good," recalls a Cabinet colleague...
...Soviet Union. You have to watch them-they work in three ways. First, by trying to get such superior forces they never need use them; a threat would be enough. We must stop them from doing that. Secondly, by trying to outflank and cut us off from our supplies of raw materials. That is the great significance of Rhodesia and South Africa: we get our vital raw materials from there. We're lucky with our oil for the time being. Now there is that colossal outflanking movement right across the oil countries, across the Horn of Africa. The third...
CLARK is extremely weak on other election issues, too. In one breath, he severely criticizes Trudeau for failing to control inflation, and in the next, promises to stimulate the economy. He has proposed a $2 billion income tax cut, which would almost certainly cause more inflation. He relies heavily on the economic theories of New York Republican congressman Jack Kemp's balanced budget, which Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, has called something "politicians can digest in 30 seconds and talk about for months." Clark also said he would dissolve the nationally-owned corporation Petro-Canada, a concession to Lougheed, despite...
...Office these last 40 years with much more historical veracity than Halberstam summons up. And, years before The Powers That Be, David Broder (The Party's Over) bemoaned the decay of the party structure, as television eliminated many functions of precinct workers, as civil service and federal aid programs cut out patronage as a source of party strength, and as pollsters, instead of party hacks, became Delphic Oracles on what the public was thinking...
HALBERSTAM has the makings of a great historical novel here. But after all those years of having his rhetorical flourishes cut by The New York Times's good, gray copy desk, he can't resist opening the floodgates. He writes of Harry Chandler as though he were the archetypical tycoon, when, actually, even more grotesque immorality founded thousands of American fortunes in these same years--Horatio Alger and Benjamin Franklin notwithstanding. Halberstam goes on (and on) to maintain that the Chandlers "in effect invented" Southern California, just like their political hired-gun/reporter Kyle Palmer invented Richard Nixon...