Word: thatcherism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creating a crisis," says a high-ranking Israeli military official. "He saw what the dictator in Haiti managed to get from Clinton. All Saddam wants to do is repeat the recipe." And to stay in power, unlike those who defeated him. As the Israeli notes, "The fact that Bush, Thatcher, Shamir and Gorbachev are all gone, while Saddam is in office, is evidence to him that he was right and they were wrong...
Competitors had to pose as a naked Margaret Thatcher or as Mick Jagger caught shoplifting, among other scenarios...
...Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, professor of American history and women's studies at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), is in the middle of the tenure evaluation process, officials confirmed yesterday...
...concession to the I.R.A. after its cease-fire announcement last month, British Prime Minister John Major lifted a ban on broadcasting the voices of Irish Republican Army leaders. Former PM Margaret Thatcher banned the I.R.A. voices from British broadcasts in 1988, but radio and TV stations simply used actors with Northern Irish accents to dub the comments of Republican activists...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher recalled "feasting" on Spam as a girl in the war years. Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev claimed, "Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army." G.I. ration or not, Supreme Commander Eisenhower got a taste and encouraged the fiction. "I ate Spam along with millions of soldiers," he claimed. Hormel glories in the tales and lets the jokes continue to roll: "The ham that didn't pass its physical. The meatball without basic training...