Word: margarete
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...Margaret W. Ho contributed to the reporting of this story...
...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...
...European Union avoid another damaging bout of budget paralysis? That's the big question following last week's E.U. summit in Brussels, at which French President Jacques Chirac questioned why Britain should continue to receive a €4 billion annual rebate on its payments. In 1984, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won the rebate for Britain by demanding: "I want my money back", and holding up E.U. business for months until she got it. E.U. leaders are supposed to fix a new budget framework this year for 2007-2013, and already there's disagreement over whether to increase the current...
DIED. JAMES CALLAGHAN, 92, British Prime Minister whose mild manners came to be viewed as complacency during his three-year tenure, which was beset by a series of labor strikes in the late 1970s, and helped usher rival Margaret Thatcher into office; in East Sussex, south of London...