Word: thatcherism
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...decision to dismantle BNOC was in line with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's philosophy that a government should not interfere with free markets. It also stemmed from the realization that BNOC was having little effect on prices. Commented London's Financial Times: "If BNOC had never existed, it would have been quite unnecessary to establish...
...ought to feel as if we knew considerably more about the Soviet Union after these 28 months. Certainly, we try hard enough to know. Before Konstantin Chernenko's death, Gorbachev was already being tracked like a meteor: Margaret Thatcher likes what she saw of him; he has a lovely wife and a grandchild; did you hear the delightful joke he made about Marx and the British Museum? Yes, but one has to watch the silver; just because he is educated and urbane does not mean he is soft. Clearly, he is out to kill Star Wars. And he does have...
After the funeral, Vice President George Bush, French President Francois Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and a long line of other distinguished visitors quietly filed past Chernenko's grave. Then they passed through the Kremlin gates to meet the new man in charge...
...democratic society because Britain has no American-style bill of rights to guarantee basic liberties or the citizen's right to know. As a result, many Britons increasingly have come to fear that a government could use the Official Secrets Act to hide abuses of power. Last month the Thatcher government suffered an embarrassing defeat when Clive Ponting, 38, a former assistant secretary at the Ministry of Defense, was acquitted of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury that had been virtually instructed by the trial judge to deliver a guilty verdict. Ponting was charged with giving a Labor...
...long-held desire to write about a chiropodist and (Director Malcolm) Mowbray's wish to direct a film about a pig." In fact, they have larger issues to lance. Although the film is set during Clement Attlee's Labor reign, it applies just as ferociously to Margaret Thatcher's pinchpenny Britain. With its double-edged title and its tone of bitter whimsy, A Private Function asks to be taken as a hymn to the meanness of the human spirit, in ) which the one decent soul is "a pathetic cringing nancy" to his wife and a "festering, bunion-scraping little pillock...