Word: thatcherism
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...Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, professor of American history and women's studies at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), is in the middle of the tenure evaluation process, officials confirmed yesterday...
...concession to the I.R.A. after its cease-fire announcement last month, British Prime Minister John Major lifted a ban on broadcasting the voices of Irish Republican Army leaders. Former PM Margaret Thatcher banned the I.R.A. voices from British broadcasts in 1988, but radio and TV stations simply used actors with Northern Irish accents to dub the comments of Republican activists...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher recalled "feasting" on Spam as a girl in the war years. Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev claimed, "Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army." G.I. ration or not, Supreme Commander Eisenhower got a taste and encouraged the fiction. "I ate Spam along with millions of soldiers," he claimed. Hormel glories in the tales and lets the jokes continue to roll: "The ham that didn't pass its physical. The meatball without basic training...
...before." Now, however, it will be covering the news as a Fox station. Many former Fox affiliates, too, are not happy at being dumped by the network they stuck with during bad times and good. "A tough pill to swallow? More like trying to swallow a football," griped Dennis Thatcher, general manager of Cleveland's WOIO-TV in the Hollywood Reporter. Murdoch's response: "We sympathize with ((the abandoned Fox stations)). But they've all done very well. Their UHF stations were built up into real assets, and a lot of them will now become network affiliates. And that...
...Success series, which had played 19 dates to smaller audiences in 1992, on the big-time motivational circuit. The key was persuading the former President to appear. After Reagan, Lowe said, it was easy to get Bush and Ford and the generals. Next he has targeted Margaret Thatcher, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Cash, who fit into his plans to move the Success seminars from auditoriums to stadiums next year, then from one day apiece to week-long crusades in the Billy Graham style and then from America to the world. (Lowe operates through a nonprofit corporation in Tampa, paying himself...