Word: thatcherism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sports sandals, this summer's must-have shoe, are now standard equipment for hikers, mountain climbers and even some skydivers. Like the fanny-pack and bike-shorts crazes of the 1980s, they had their origins in the great outdoors. The footwear was originally designed eight years ago by Mark Thatcher, a Colorado river outfitter who found athletic shoes too slippery and spongelike for white-water rafting trips...
...answer to that question has been, until recently, the United States. "No other nation," Margaret Thatcher has said, "has so successfully combined people of different races and nations within a single culture." How have Americans succeeded in pulling off this almost unprecedented trick...
Decked out in a cherry-red suit, Margaret Thatcher rose in the House of Commons last week to warn yet again of the perils of a European superstate. Prime Minister John Major squirmed on the government's front bench, but her commanding performance made some other Tories long for the past...
...days later, Thatcher told the country she was looking to the future. After 32 years in the House of Commons, more than 11 as Prime Minister, she announced she will not run in the general election expected to be called early next year. She indicated she was eager to move to the House of Lords...
...decision should be a relief for Major, who is trying to chart his own policy on European integration. He can speed Thatcher on her way: if she is to sit in the Lords, he will have to ask the Queen to grant her a peerage...