Word: thatcherism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quays nearest the ferry, waiting for survivors to be pulled out. The injured were transported to nearby hospitals, some in critical condition. There they were consoled by Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, Belgian King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola and, on Saturday, by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who helicoptered to Zeebrugge. Said she: "The rescue effort was highly professional, skillful and very, very courageous...
Such shirts are the most noted creation of British Designer Katharine Hamnett, who showed up at a 1984 London fashion-biz reception to shake hands with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sporting a T that had something rather pointed to say about the presence of Pershing missiles in Europe. "I didn't realize the effect wearing that T shirt would have on my reputation," the designer insists. The incident, well covered in the press, did make her a bit notorious, which was a novelty. She had, after all, already spent some time being one of the best designers in England...
...scandal could also have serious political repercussions for the financial community's traditional allies in the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who must call national elections by the summer of 1988. "There's bound to be political fallout," says a prominent London banker. "The muck will be raked by the media and the opposition parties, and some of it will stick." Though no government official has been implicated, Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of the opposition Labor Party, has charged that support for the City's "sleazy undercurrent of corruption is the inevitable extension of Tory economic philosophy...
Increasingly at odds with the Thatcher government, BBC executives felt particularly harassed: the government had known about the leak since last summer, and the BBC had already decided not to air the Zircon expose because of possible damage to Britain's national security...
DURING THE month of Jaruzelski's mission to Italy and Whitehead's diplomatic initiative, Poland played host to Japanese prime minister Nakasone. The country will receive Britain's Margaret Thatcher and the French and German foreign ministers during the coming months...