Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British Cabinet member told TIME, "We cannot and will not repeat the ghastly mistake of Sir Anthony Eden at Suez in 1956, when he led Great Britain into war without the backing of America." Of Prime Minister Thatcher, widely known as one of the most hawkish voices in her inner circle, the Cabinet member said that "Margaret's heart may be telling her to leap into the fray, but her head is telling her that you cannot militarily operate in the Southern Hemisphere without U.S. explicit or implicit support...
...Harder-line members are Thatcher, Defense Secretary Nott and Conservative Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson. Parkinson's presence in the inner council struck many observers as unusual, but, by virtue of his party job, he keeps close tabs on the opinions of individual Tory M.P.s, and therefore is in a position to advise Thatcher on what positions her followers will support, and how strongly they will support them...
...Cabinet discussions are shrouded in secrecy, but TIME has learned that the British inner circle has set a strict deadline of mid-June, the onset of winter, for resolution of the Falklands crisis, whether by diplomatic or by military means. Explains a Thatcher aide: "We just can't keep our fleet bobbing around in such harsh weather conditions forever...
...take a tax credit up to $ 100 in 1983 for each child in private elementary or secondary schools, up to $300 in 1984, up to $500 thereafter. Families earning between $50,000 and $75,000 would be eligible for partial credits. Declared Reagan: "We are offering help to the inner-city child who faces a world of drugs and crime, the child with special needs, and to families who still believe the Lord's Prayer will do them less harm in the schoolroom than good...
...requirement of the Ford Foundation headquarters, as Roche saw it, was to overcome the institutional confines of the modern office, with its angst-inducing anonymity. Roche's solution was to group the offices around an inner court, which Critic Ada Louise Huxtable has called "a horticultural spectacular and probably one of the most romantic environments ever devised by corporate man." Across this court, office workers are aware of one another. It inspires a sense of being a working family...