Word: thatcherism
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...Thatcherism in England was called less a revolution than a hiccup, in a recent issue of the Times Literary Supplement. Will the same be said of Reaganism? Certainly Reagan's reputation, like Thatcher's, is in eclipse at the moment. But Reagan's decline may be an extreme reaction, prompted by this year's mysteriously sour mood. Ending the cold war has left Americans adrift. Anticommunism imposed an ordinating principle on the government's many scattered activities. Without that principle, the country seems disoriented. The nation's problems are evident, but Reagan's denigration of government (for all uses...
George Bush--Bush should retire to a ranch in Grenada with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. They can watch tapes of that invasion, the Gulf War, the Falklands, Afghanistan and, of course, nightly reprisals of "Bedtime for Bonzo...
...more of what it does best: free trade. The E.C.'s single-market project will soon allow the virtual free flow of capital, goods and labor within the Twelve. Speaking last month in Washington, Margaret Thatcher made the case for a rapid widening of the single market. First, east to its European neighbors. And then boldly west -- to North America...
...president's average sleeping time is not public information, so one can only speculate as to how much of his waking hours this period constitutes. To judge by leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Boris Yeltsin, fabled for their four-hour nights, one hour per day would be equivalent to 5 percent of possible productive time. This period is significantly less than that required to complete a game of golf. If our president sleeps more than four hours, the discrepancy becomes even more alarming...
...they mortgage the farm by supporting a bunch of whiny, inbred, philandering malcontents. But it's a small price to pay to preserve the integrity of their political system. The British get their jollies watching royal weddings and royal divorces while they elect colorless but thoughtful politicians like Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Lacking a similar means of letting off symbolic steam, we have to elect movie actors and flag-factory denizens...