Word: ministership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scattering of police, no automatic rifles, no metal detectors in evidence, if present at all. Gandhi had been campaigning with little protection, a marked contrast to his previous style. His mother's assassination by Sikh bodyguards in 1984, the event that catapulted the former airline pilot into the prime ministership, had highlighted his vulnerability. For years he wore a bulletproof vest and surrounded himself with security so tight that opponents had begun ridiculing...
...Thatcher. I'll tell you very frankly, I was very sorry she resigned. Before that, we were in Paris. She told me that after 11 years of prime ministership, you have a lot of enemies because the people who don't make Minister become your enemies, and the people who were Ministers and are removed become your enemies. I think she was right. I have the same problem in Turkey...
...vision thing." Despite its status as an economic superpower, the country suffers from global parochialism. The closest approximation of a grand strategy is the goal of keeping the world safe for Japanese exports and investments. The political system depends, sometimes to the point of paralysis, on consensus. The prime ministership has rarely been a bully pulpit, especially in recent years. After a massive stock-trading scandal, the shoguns of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party chose Kaifu in 1989 not just because he was untainted. He was untested and unthreatening as well, a caretaker who would be easy to push around...