Word: thatcherism
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...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...
...made me feel like a complete idiot," he adds cheerfully--an acknowledgement that sometimes the best way to gather information is by not trying to. "And then at the end, he looked at me quizzically and said, 'How's your brother?'" The brother had been an aide to Margaret Thatcher and was still in Cheney's Rolodex...
...until successful elections are held. Red-haired and green-eyed, Micic has been nicknamed Nicole Kidman by some of her male colleagues. She resents the name. "It just shows immaturity and disregard for women on the part of our politicians," she says. "I'd rather be likened to Margaret Thatcher or Indira Gandhi." Still, she's been more than happy to invoke other Hollywood icons in the past. During the anti-Milosevic riots in October 2000, Micic and a female friend taunted the police by cruising Belgrade demonstrations in a car with "Thelma and Louise" inscribed on the hood...
...progressive is subsidized childcare if it means that I hire some poor immigrant woman and pay her less than I earn at my job?” or “Equal representation in Parliament is rubbish; any woman sitting as MP will sell us out anyway; look at Thatcher!” But though heated, the arguments lacked rancor, and all the nationalities and ideologies seemed strangely united by the vibrancy and possibility of the moment...
...once been." As empire and prosperity slipped away, a few voices rose to stem history's tide. He assesses the efforts of comic-opera geniuses Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as novelist Ian Fleming, whose agent James Bond was a one-man antidote to the Cold War. Also Margaret Thatcher, for whom decline was a moral question but whose "hectoring intolerance proved her undoing...