Word: primed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real thing. He has just completed his first year in office, and by nearly every measurement, things could not be better. He is more popular now than when he won his landslide victory. His 72% approval rating in the polls is the highest first-year score for any British Prime Minister of either party since World War II. His Labour government is so far ahead of the opposition Tories in the national polls that the party of Margaret Thatcher, which dominated British politics for a generation, has almost disappeared as an effective political force. Blair is arguably the most successful...
...Modernization" is the young Prime Minister's mantra. After Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, he waged a bitter fight to reform it, moving it away from its tired socialist roots and forcing it to embrace elements of Thatcherism. As Prime Minister, he has embarked on a mission to modernize Britain and its politics. The grand design is not entirely clear. "He's not an ideologist," says Oxford University political scientist David Marquand, "but he wants an ideology. In a kind of intuitive way he knows what he's against and perhaps what he is for." Blair...
...series. Seinfeld has said that the show emulates Abbott and Costello, for example. And Michael Richards' portrayal of Kramer is a frank homage to The Honeymooners' Art Carney. But Seinfeld's fans have always been rather smug when they declare that the show is "about nothing" and that its prime directive is "No hugging. No learning." The idea seems to be that to find humor in trivia and to avoid sentiment is very happening, now, today...
...elegant dinners and toasts at the G-8 summit this week in England, the real fun begins: the two leaders will lock themselves in a room with a clutch of top officials to talk about government policy for four or five hours. The Sunday meeting at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country mansion north of London, will be the third such bilateral seminar, following one at the White House, when Blair visited in February, and the inaugural 12-hr. "wonkathon" at Chequers in November, when Hillary Clinton sat in for her husband...
...With Pakistan already under U.S. sanctions for its nuclear program, adds Waller, ?there are not many levers left to pull." And pressure from Islamic fundamentalists and other opposition parties is likely to spur Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to test. ?Most observers here would be amazed if a test does not take place,? reports TIME Islamabad correspondent Hannah Bloch...