Word: thatcherism
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...death penalty, who had counted on the Conservatives, with their new 144-seat majority in Parliament, to heed the sentiment for a crackdown on violent crime. The vote was "free," meaning that party discipline was not invoked to influence the decisions of individual members. While Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and eight Cabinet colleagues supported a motion calling for the hanging of terrorist killers, eight others voted against...
...Although Thatcher favors hanging, she probably does not regret last week's outcome. A return to the noose would have saddled the government with the task of redefining and reforming the nation's penal law so as to define the various conditions under which capital punishment would be applied. It would also have given Britain the dubious distinction of being the only country in Western Europe, except Turkey, to execute criminals...
...Europeans felt betrayed. They shipped 92,000 tons of specialty steels to the U.S. in 1982, and are chiefly blamed for the American industry's woes. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher blasted the White House action before the House of Commons. Said she: "It is a deplorable action on the part of the United States." The Commission of the European Community expressed its "profound dissatisfaction...
...This is the next great tennis argument and they should be years settling it. Each man likes the other about as much as a foot fault at match point, and the promise of tennis with extra spice brought the former King of Greece and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the royal box. McEnroe looked up and thought to himself that Thatcher's presence was appropriate: "Two conservative guys playing." He won their semifinal in three straight and serene sets. Subsequently, the improbable Lewis beat Curren in a thrilling five-setter and gave thought to an upset of McEnroe...
...Margaret Thatcher. She is somewhat the same sort. Like Reagan, she comes from the provincial middle class, and, like Reagan, she inherited the ideals of other generations, which are still alive in a large part of the British public. The Falklands war can be compared to the last victorious expedition of the Republic of Venice [in 1786], only a few years before her end, against the Bey of Tunis...