Word: thatcherism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Previously, Carrington had been foreign secretary under then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but had resigned soon after Britain became involved in the Falkland Islands conflict...
...Thatcher. I'll tell you very frankly, I was very sorry she resigned. Before that, we were in Paris. She told me that after 11 years of prime ministership, you have a lot of enemies because the people who don't make Minister become your enemies, and the people who were Ministers and are removed become your enemies. I think she was right. I have the same problem in Turkey...
...consequences of despised tax policies. A levy on tea, after all, helped spark the American Revolution. Last week, to save itself from the voters' wrath, the government of Prime Minister John Major unveiled its alternative to the deeply hated poll tax, the flat-fee assessment that Margaret Thatcher instituted last year to replace property taxes as the means of financing local governments...
...poll tax prompted a bloody riot in London, helped bring about Thatcher's resignation and threatened to unseat the ruling Conservative Party in national elections, which must be held by mid-1992. Major's new scheme would assess owners and renters alike on the basis of the value of their dwellings, with a 25% reduction for individuals living alone. The poor will be exempt...
...Margaret Thatcher once confidently predicted that her political reign would "go on and on." Now chafing in forced retirement, the former British Prime Minister apparently intends to apply that philosophy to the writing of her memoirs. Thatcher is talking about dividing her life story into three or four volumes, more than potential U.S. publishers hope to see -- or sell. Perhaps the Iron Lady wishes to continue emulating her idol Winston Churchill, who wrote more than two dozen books during his lifetime...