Word: manifestoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flanked by ten Cabinet ministers, Thatcher presented the Tories' 77-page program during her appearance at party headquarters. She regards the manifesto not only as the answer to her critics but also as the next phase of what she considers her unfinished revolution. In that revolution, she sees the welfare- state mentality overtaken by a renewed sense of competition and the labor unions that once challenged government authority shorn of their excessive power. Said Thatcher: "If anyone hoped to attack the Conservative Party for running out of ideas after two periods of office, this manifesto puts paid to that...
...explain and justify its workings. The intellectual center of Afrikanerdom is the University of Stellenbosch, just outside Cape Town, and Stellenbosch is in turmoil. Not only are the students increasingly disaffected (see box), but 27 senior academics recently resigned in protest from the National Party and issued a manifesto demanding abolition of all "residuals of apartheid." When the Cape Town Nationalist newspaper Die Burger dismissed the gesture as "trivial" because there were only 27 protesters in a faculty of more than 700, an additional 301 promptly signed the manifesto and promised that more would soon add their signatures...
Roll over, Karl Marx. Wake up, Friedrich Engels. Nearly 150 years after The Communist Manifesto and 70 years after the Russian Revolution, free enterprise is coming back to the Soviet Union. Businesses ranging from mom-and-pop shoe repair to interior decoration are being legalized under a new "individual labor" law that takes effect this Friday -- which happens, ironically, to be the international socialist holiday May Day. The measure makes it possible for the first time since Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s for individuals to make money legally according to a decidedly un-Marxist principle: from...
...desk and began plowing. Eight hours later I was finished, my hair snow white and my heartbeat a little erratic but otherwise none the worse for wear. Even though I had perused only a small portion of the work, I felt ready to bang out an intellectual manifesto for anthology addicts...
...great slogans. "This Bud's for you." "When you say Budweiser, you've said it all." Powerful words for determined people. Their latest. slogan, though, tops them all: "I pledge allegiance to the King of Beers." This was exactly what I was looking for, a brew with a political manifesto to back...