Word: thatcherism
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...sure, Reagan was not the only weakened leader in Venice. Wits went too far in talking about a "lame-duck summit." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected in January, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on the verge of winning a third term, and French President Francois Mitterrand has recouped his popularity. But Prime Ministers Amintore Fanfani of Italy and Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan are due to step down soon, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is in severe political trouble at home. No wonder that their deliberations in a 17th century monastery on the island...
...that Japan and West Germany would move to stimulate their domestic economies to ward off a growing threat of world recession and, not incidentally, reduce their towering trade surpluses, which are the counterpart of the U.S. deficit. Japan did announce a stimulative package before the summit, but Britain's Thatcher judged it insufficient. Kohl, harking back to a metaphor from past summits, declared flatly that West Germany "will not be the locomotive" for world economic growth...
...esteemed career as a fair, levelheaded British politician may have been overshadowed by his fame. Onetime tailor Lord Weatherill, who kept a thimble in his pocket to stay humble, won fans by resisting pressure from fellow Tory Margaret Thatcher to be more partisan while he was Speaker of the House of Commons. Yet more knew him as the man who ushered in the age of TV coverage of the chamber in 1989 and the last Speaker to wear the traditional wig. (It allowed for selective hearing, he said...
...fact, came close to killing both of Blair's immediate predecessors, bombing a hotel where Margaret Thatcher was staying in 1984 and exploding mortars only yards away from where John Major was holding a cabinet meeting in 1991. That Blair shared the gallery with men once accused of being IRA leaders was a sign of how much has changed in Northern Ireland...
...current economic and social model, but a rupture is required if the country is going to reverse its economic and social decline. Though some of his rhetoric has needlessly offended the very people he is most likely to help, Sarkozy is closer to Blair than to Thatcher and is the candidate making serious proposals to create employment and enhance France’s place in the global economy...