Word: thatcherism
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...with the expiration of the "lease of Hong Kong" in sight, Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher reached an agreement on Hong Kong's return to China. The fate of Hong Kong was sealed with a Sino-British joint declaration and its provision for the Basic...
...find a story in an old coin or engraving as well as in a traditional archive," said Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Phillips professor of early American history and Harvard's other professor of Women's Studies...
LONDON: Now the Thatcher revolution is complete. In a major policy reversal, Labour leader Tony Blair announced Monday that his party, long the champion of nationalization, is ditching its official opposition to privatization. "Gone are the days when Labour represented one side of industry and business found itself automatically on the other," he told business leaders at London's Corn Exchange. "There should be no dogmatic belief. What counts is what works." What's more, if Labour regains No. 10 Downing Street after the May 1 election, Blair pledged that his party will end its regular consultations with trade unions...
Walters read excerpts from her interviews with retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and actor Christopher Reeve...
...government spending, while pledging to hold the line on curbs introduced by the Conservatives to limit union power. Unlike the Prime Minister, he is not plagued by a popular image that depicts him as a weak-kneed, befuddled leader whose ideas are nothing more than stale leftovers from the Thatcher era. On the "progressive" front, Blair's party pledges to abolish the voting powers of the hereditary aristocrats who sit in the House of Lords, the upper chamber of parliament. The six-week campaign is scheduled to kick off on April 8, when parliament will be officially dissolved and will...