Word: thatcherism
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...That ruthless streak will come in handy as Koizumi pursues his ambition to destroy old Japan. His ideological role model is Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, whom he escorted around the Diet when she visited Japan back in the 1980s. Her mantras are his: privatize, cut government spending and stop mollycoddling loser companies. It's the opposite of his predecessors' prescription for Japan's woes. They spent more than $1 trillion over the past decade trying to rev up the moribund economy; Koizumi has promised to end this profligate spending, starting with a 10% cut in next year...
...years." Indeed Black, who is married to columnist Barbara Amiel, a Briton who grew up in Canada (he has three children from a previous marriage), spends half the year at his home in London. He has close ties to the British Conservative Party and, like his friend Margaret Thatcher, opposes increased British integration into the E.U. Born to a wealthy family, Black demonstrated an early flair for entrepreneurship. When he was eight he spent his entire $60 savings on one General Motors share. Later, he sold stolen exams to fellow students at a prestigious Toronto boys' school - and was expelled...
...Alaska in the spring would necessitate abandoning the ABM pact by late fall. Russia made no official reply to the announcement. BRITAIN Tory Story The battle for leadership of the Conservative Party heated up, as ballot papers were sent to 300,000 party members and former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major weighed in behind contenders Iain Duncan Smith and Kenneth Clarke, respectively. In the candidates' first head-to-head television debate, the fault line once again developed around Britain's relationship with Europe. Duncan Smith suffered a setback when he was forced to sack one of his campaigners...
Wimbledon, July 7: Scores seat in royal box alongside Margaret Thatcher. Gives the BBC a rain-delay interview in which he opines that Venus Williams "is like a gazelle...
...whose passion for politics began in his early teens and whose dazzling career in the party - he was an M.P. at 27, a cabinet minister at 34 - suggested he might one day move into 10 Downing St. Back in 1997, after the Tories' first shattering defeat of the post-Thatcher era, Hague seemed to be just the man to unite and rejuvenate them. Last week, he appeared to have nothing to show for four years of hard work and an exhausting campaign: he might have done wonders to reorganize the party structure and humble Labour ministers in parliamentary debate...