Word: thatcherism
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...American self-improvement. "No matter what your line of work, President of the United States or running a business," Bush told them, "character does matter." Schwarzkopf added that it was "a thing called 'character' that described General George Patton and Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Mother Teresa and Margaret Thatcher...
...avoid the pit of oblivion into which many such working groups disappear, the committee should have a prominent leader capable of capturing national attention. There are many candidates, with Margaret Thatcher and former Secretary of State George Schultz being the most obvious possibilities...
...hand there's the exaggeratedly yuppified couple who've moved in next door to Cyril's aged mother. These are Thatcher's children, who display their politics and appalling snobbery when they tell their neighbors that "mercifully you people do have the opportunity to purchase your council properties these days." The other side of the social coin is represented by Cyril's sister Vivien and her nouveau-riche husband. While Vivien personifies the British obsession with upward social mobility, her husband's chat-up line, "Hurry up, I've only got ten minutes" was for me a nostalgic reminder...
Reagan and Thatcher and Kohl pulled it off. But not without enormous resistance from Western liberals and leftists. In America the resistance took the form of a nuclear-freeze movement that would have frozen Soviet missiles in place and frozen NATO...
...Margaret Thatcher told Bush on the eve of the Gulf War, now is not the time to waver. This time, however, the enemy is not some megalomaniac dictator, but the tyranny of American public opinion...