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...traditional 'kissing hands upon appointment'-a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory ... Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government but the first to lead a major Western nation ... In keeping with British tradition, Thatcher...
...Aiming for the Top Angela Merkel's bid for Germany's chancellorship (Aug. 29) was just the latest attempt by a woman to win a country's top elected position. And when the subject of a woman in the top job comes up, the person most talked about is Margaret Thatcher, who was on TIME's cover of May 14, 1979, when she became Britain's first female Prime Minister. Here is an excerpt from that report...
...Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
...Friday, however, Saavedra was ecstatic. At a press conference in one of the Houston district's middle schools, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced that the Federal Government would request $2.6 billion from Congress to pay 90% of the average cost of educating each Katrina student, whether publicly or privately, up to a ceiling of $7,500 apiece. "From 9% to 90%," Saavedra said afterward, with the dazed elation of a lottery winner...