Word: thatcherian
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Keeping his distance has other strategic value for the French President. "Should this become a Thatcherian struggle with unions for survival, Sarkozy's position above the fray will allow him to appeal directly to the public for it to choose sides - meaning his," Mistral says. "By resurfacing as things really get tough, he's in a better position to make a convincing appeal that he'll now try to over come union defiance - but will need demonstrative backing of the public...
...Robinson is after more than black humor. He wants us to see this tormented body as a metaphor for a tormented body politic; the wildly successful British advertising business may be to the Thatcherian age what imperialism was to the Victorian. But here Robinson sets down his hot satirical lance and slaps a soppy poultice of preachment onto the end of his movie. It proves to be a 19th century home remedy for an ailment he has convinced us may be curable only by more up-to-date and radical means...
...challenges the fourth element of Reaganomics: tight money. At best, he argues, such a monetarist approach to inflation is problematic: No one really knows what the money supply in, and it's also impossible to control the enormous supply available in Eurodollar markets. In any case, the Administration's Thatcherian approach to Federal Reserve Policy flies in the face of its expansionary tax cuts. Tight money keeps interest rates high, thwarting the heralded supply-side investment boom and eroding investor confidence. Meanwhile, the jittery rich--hardly the bold innovators of George Gilder's mythology--put their tax cuts into diamonds...
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