Word: thatchers
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...lifelong socialist. Yet now you are relying on market mechanisms, privatization, letting prices and interest rates find their own levels. It looks like an economic philosophy closer to Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's. What's socialist about...
...Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister ad infinitum, quit? Not yet, but maybe sooner than some dared hope. Last week Thatcher announced that she would not stand for a fifth consecutive term in office. She told the London weekly Sunday Correspondent she would lead the Conservative Party into the next election, likely to be held in 1991, but after that there "will be plenty of people who can take over...
...Thatcher plainly wanted to stop speculation that she might resign in the wake of the resignation of Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson...
...praise was terminally faint. During a question period in Parliament last week, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed confidence in Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, who was feuding with her chief economic adviser, Sir Alan Walters. But her endorsement was embarrassingly tepid. Lawson, 57, promptly resigned. His successor: Foreign Minister John Major, 46, who headed the Foreign Office for less than four months but served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury for two years. Rumor has it that he is Thatcher's new favorite to be her successor. Major's replacement: Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, 59, who presumably brings...
...Andreas, researchers have sunk strain gauges up to 1,000 ft. deep into the earth and laced the surface with "creep meters" that measure rock movement. "We're listening to the heartbeat of this section of the fault very, very closely," says the Geological Survey's Thatcher. The Parkfield section of the San Andreas is unusual in that it is the Old Faithful of earthquake zones, generating moderate tremors every 20 to 27 years. The last Parkfield earthquake occurred in 1966, which means that the next one should strike between now and 1993. By keeping detailed track of underground changes...