Word: thatcherism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live, breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Thatcher's England...
...Cuba's Fidel Castro, who is no fan of perestroika or glasnost, the Soviet leader will have a chance to show whether his rhetoric about new thinking translates into taking concrete steps toward easing tensions in Central America. Afterward, he plans to go to London to see if Margaret Thatcher still believes, as she once said of Gorbachev, that "we can do business together...
Gorbachev will be in Cuba through Wednesday for meetings with Castro. In London, he will hold talks Thursday with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, address financial and business leaders Friday and have lunch with Queen Elizabeth II before departing for Moscow...
...HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Margaret Thatcher's England...
Looking back, British opposition politicians were critical of the authorities' apparent lack of response to the warning. They indignantly demanded an investigation. Among the questions they wanted answered: Was a cover-up under way to protect the Thatcher government? Huffed Frank Dobson, shadow leader of the House of Commons: "When is the Secretary of State ((for transport)) going to come to the House and tell us the truth and the whole truth for the first time...