Word: thatcherism
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...modernization" savings - reforms like joint control centers for police, fire and ambulance; fire trucks with both full-time and part-time employees; and more flexibility in shift work. But that would mean job losses, so the firefighters were furious, questioning whether Blair was trying to "pull a Maggie" - prove Thatcher-like toughness to win votes. Blair's goal isn't so much union-busting as long-term political survival. Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced that the government had to borrow $31 billion this year because the slowing economy is depleting tax receipts - the first...
...factor, surely, was a clarity of vision. In Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s, the most popular Western politicians were those like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who didn't pussyfoot around but called the communist tyranny what it was. Michael Mandelbaum, author of a new book The Ideas That Conquered the World, argues, however, that Reagan's importance to the transformation of Europe came less from what he said than from what he stood for--the West's evident freedom and prosperity. "It was the power of example that made the difference," Mandelbaum says. "People believed what they...
...more than willing. Chirac, who celebrates his 70th birthday at the end of this month, has often been thwarted in a career that stretches back four decades, so he's making up for it now. He earned his cowboy spurs in the 1970s, veering wildly between Reagan-Thatcher economics and French "laborism." He resigned as Prime Minister in 1976 after deciding that President Val?ry Giscard d'Estaing wasn't taking enough notice of him. In 1981, after founding his own party, he ran a presidential campaign that split the right and allowed the left to win the presidency. He tried...
...factor, surely, was a clarity of vision. In Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s, the most popular Western politicians were those like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who didn't pussyfoot around but called the communist tyranny what it was. Michael Mandelbaum, author of a new book The Ideas That Conquered the World, argues, however, that Reagan's importance to the transformation of Europe came less from what he said than from what he stood for - the West's evident freedom and prosperity. "It was the power of example that made the difference," Mandelbaum says. "People believed what they...
...Lula is elected and Washington is wise, the U.S. will accept occasional annoyances with Brazil (Lula will doubtless make nice with Fidel Castro) as a price worth paying for something rather remarkable. It has been 20 years since, in her unwitting gift to Latin America, Margaret Thatcher defeated the Argentine junta in the Falklands war and revealed the bankruptcy of politics run by men in dark glasses and military uniforms. Democracy in Latin America is robust; Hakim calls last week's election "tremendously clean, competent and decent." One mark of health in any democracy is the election of those...