Word: thatcherism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...good tale, deftly mixing the grandiose and ironic (a recipe in her first book begins, "I first had salsa verde when I was a chambermaid in Florence...") with a healthy sprinkling of famous names. Her father Nigel was a journalist before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher. After graduating from Oxford, Nigella followed her father into journalism at the Sunday Times of London. Soon she veered into her mother's territory (Vanessa Lawson was an heiress to a chain of tea shops) and started writing about food...
...Margaret Thatcher arrived at her North London constituency early, in good time for glad-handing and a last bit of publicity. But it was well into the following morning when the last paper ballots from every village and shire came in: the gutsy politician of the zealous right had routed Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan and smashed the gender barrier to become Britain's first female...
...think if people are like me, it’ll be at the last minute, and they’ll learn how to cope,” says Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who notes that preregistration may make it difficult to design the elaborate course websites she typically prefers to offer her students...
...trapped in our cars? The automobile was, you'll recall, supposed to revolutionize our quality of life. And for a brief and shining moment, it did. During the salad days of London traffic in the 1970s, when Margaret Thatcher proclaimed that "nothing should be allowed to stand in the way of the great car economy," cars blazed through London at 12-14 km/h during rush hour. Ad campaigns trumpeted the power and comfort of the private car, and people were seduced because, after all, it seemed true. If the city is the apogee of public life, the car became...
...Domestically, the threat comes not from the pitiful opposition Conservative Party but from the fact that many of his own Labour Party members are implacably opposed to a war without U.N. sanction--and even with it would support one only reluctantly. Historically, British Prime Ministers--think Margaret Thatcher--are just as likely to be tossed from office for splitting their parties as they are for losing elections. Blair has never been much loved by the party faithful; if a war were to go badly, his position would become untenable. As to Europe, though Blair (and Bush) have allies there, among...