Word: thatcherism
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...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...
...WELL, I WISH IT WERE A MORE dramatic story..." So begins Professor of History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in describing the discovery of the diary that led to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale. On the contrary, her fifteen-year journey from the discovery of eighteenth-century midwife Martha Ballard's diary to the Boston premiere of Laurie Kahn-Leavitt's film production of her story, is a tale in itself...
DIED. MOLLIE PANTER-DOWNES, 90, novelist and correspondent for the New Yorker who wrote the magazine's Letter from London for more than four decades, chronicling Britain from Churchill to Thatcher; on Jan. 22; in a nursing home in Surrey, England...
...concern that Albright's "every move" will be subject to gender-based critique is hysterical and unjustified. While Albright will undoubtedly have to shatter gender stereotypes, her actions as U.N. ambassador were usually interpreted fairly. Furthermore, most recent portrayals of women in unprecedented positions of power, from Margaret Thatcher to Janet Reno, have been free of patriarchal prejudice...
...writers who now fill the syllabi of American literature courses were dismissed, if they were mentioned at all, as the 'damned scribbling females'..." Thatcher Ulrich says in an e-mail message. "Women's studies programs and women's studies methods within older disciplines have helped to create a kind of renaissance of scholarship...one that will have improtant and lasting effects for generations...