Word: thatcherism
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...BITCHES" are in the air. From Leona Helmsley ("guilty bitch") to Margaret Thatcher ("conservative bitch") to Imelda Marcos ("well-shod bitch"), the word is being thrown around as an all-encompassing description of why these women are less-than-desireable role models...
...Margaret Thatcher, after weeks of controversy over her proposed poll tax, argued that people would not have objected so strongly if a man had been so politically bold...
...process began last week when Robert Runcie announced that he will step down next January, eight months shy of mandatory retirement at age 70. Like all English bishops, his successor will be named by the Prime Minister and formally appointed by the Queen. Thatcher, raised as a Methodist, is probably not sorry to see Runcie go: she has been vexed by his pleas for the suffering poor under her economic policies and doubtless agrees with Peterborough's Bishop William Westwood that "the church needs to take a less high profile" under its next leader...
Following a procedure revised in 1977, candidates for the post will be selected by a panel of bishops, priests and lay people chosen by the church, with a Thatcher appointee in charge. The panel will propose two names to the Prime Minister in order of preference. She gains further leverage through her power to reject both names and demand new ones, although such a move would be extraordinary...
Last week, with the Lithuanian situation coming to a boil, Bush noted that Britain's Margaret Thatcher had phoned Gorbachev. Bush wondered aloud to aides if he should call Gorbachev again. Bush was walking a high wire, supporting both Lithuania's right to be independent and Gorbachev's leadership. His message had been conveyed in public statements, diplomatic channels. But phoning is different. "Just to call," Bush explains, "say, 'Look, how's it going? What do you think about this?' I learn from it. I mean, it's a two-way street. It's better than a cable...