Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of permanence to any of this," says Suzzy, and if the Roches were to be judged by the impact of their celebrity, rather than the staying power of their work, she might be right. But Maggie, characteristically, goes a little deeper. "There's a fear," she says, "that you might not comeback...
...sounds like a sleazy enterprise, have no fear. Sleaziness has never stood in the way of fun on television. Ike is the show that NBC's Backstairs at the White House so desperately wanted to be: a trashy romp through famous events, laced with unprovable innuendo and raucous caricatures of public figures. As history, Ike is a waste of time, but as a time waster, it more than fills the bill...
...London, the Midlands, and the South of England, there were dramatic swings to the Conservatives, who wooed prosperous skilled workers and the middle class with promises of tax-cuts and curbs on the power of unions. In the industrial North, where many people fear what 'market economy'-style politics may mean for jobs and social services, the drift to the Conservatives was much more negligible. And in Scotland, where the nationalist challenge collapsed, there was actually a swing to Labour--with Teddy Taylor, the Conservative spokesman on Scotland, losing his seat. The scathing portrayal of Mrs. Thatcher by one Northern...
...democracy, more public ownership, and social service and welfare reform--all elements that have traditionally given the Labour Party its fervor and crusading appeal. Instead, by virtue both of his temperament and the restrictions of heading a minority government, Callaghan watered down such proposals or dropped them altogether for fear of alienating the 'middle ground.' He thus handed the Conservatives the ideological initiative...
...others discuss the need to strictly control colored immigration, but do not offer any plan to combat the mounting unemployment of young blacks in the decaying inner cities, and when Thatcher herself subscribes to the rhetoric of Hayek and Milton Friedman, she cannot be totally surprised if some fear the worst consequences in a country used to 'fair play,' a sense of decency and give-and-take, instead of the tooth-and-claw competition of the unfettered market economy. Of course, it is always possible--as many believe and as some progressive Conservatives hope--that the realities of power...