Word: major
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Major's good humor that has helped him through the travails of what has been--by nearly all accounts--a stunningly successful political career...
...Major's road to 10 Downing St. was unorthodox even by British standards. He did not attend college and learned through his positions in virtually every department of the British government...
...Major faced two tasks that occupied nearly the entirety of his seven-year tenure as Prime Minister...
...Second, Major faced what he called the "intractable" problem: his party was split in two by the thorny issue of a greater Europe...
These battles between the Euroskeptics, who championed national sovereignty and worried that a British monetary union with Europe would weaken the county's economy, and the Europhiles, who saw an extra-national union as the way to the U.K.'s salvation, wore Major down...