Word: thatcherism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Margaret Thatcher...
...debates, scheduled to begin in April, are modelled after the Oxford Union, a forum at Oxford University that has produced such notable politicians as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was president of the society. Members face one another in formal debates over civic questions, the Harvard organizers said...
...Margaret Thatcher undoubtedly has gravitas. One thinks of Barbara Jordan as a figure of gravitas (the voice, the steady, strong intelligence...
...mistrustful of British judicial and security procedures. The situation was not helped by allegations that McAnespie, who had done low-level electioneering for Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican army, had regularly been harassed at the same checkpoint. Haughey's decision infuriated British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who declared that Dublin had no right to inquire into "matters north of the border...
Irish anger began to surge in late January, when the Thatcher government announced that, for reasons of "national security," it would not prosecute a group of officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northern Ireland's predominantly Protestant police force. The officers were involved in the R.U.C.'s alleged shoot-to-kill policy of 1982 and 1983. An official inquiry on the case has gone unpublished...