Word: thatcherism
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...that the White House favored the Stalinist coupmongers (although the President's initial reaction to the coup was, as Margaret Thatcher would have said, wobbly). But the Administration's obvious favorite in Moscow is not Yeltsin but Gorbachev...
...generated. Unlike myself, who gets nostalgic for a less frantic, less accelerated information environment. Things have come a long, long way. I remember an era when there wasn't AIDS. And I remember when there wasn't crack. When president did not mean Reagan, and leader did not mean Thatcher. I think young people don't know that it once was otherwise. And so there's none of that sense of unproductive mourning...I think you're lucky...
...little bit like Maggie Thatcher. I don't think he's of her stature. (I must say of all the politicians I've disliked in my life, she has the most stature. Her only equal in the world was Gorbachev.) Like Thatcher, Bush is full of cant -- he believes what it is necessary for him to believe at any given moment. No philosophy whatsoever...
...Thatcher plan also offers a radical choice for which there is, as yet, no U.S. equivalent. Individual public schools may "opt out" of local school systems and instead receive funding directly from the national government. With this declaration of independence, a school's headmaster and a governing body that includes parents become responsible for most decisions, from hiring teachers to spending priorities. Because opt-outs do not lose a portion of their budgets to district-authority overhead, they often have money for more books, new facilities and additional teachers...
...school must first secure the consent of a majority of its students' parents. In the two years since Thatcher's plan went into effect, 102 schools have cut their ties; 11 are on the verge of final action; 88 more await government approval. They are the first patches in a quilt of autonomous schools -- which are tax supported and tuition free but in effect can operate as if they were privately run -- that the country's Conservative government hopes will blanket the country...