Word: thatchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with at least a spoonful of sugar. But last week, when Chancellor Nigel Lawson arrived at the House of Commons with his 25-page budget, he brought along an entire sugar bowl. In a somber, 59-minute speech, Lawson cut taxes, pared government borrowing and placed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in an excellent position to call national elections as early as June...
...even Thatcher's most bitter enemies cannot deny that the economy is rebounding smartly. Consumer spending rose by 5% last year, while inflation simmered at a low 3.4%. The output of the once sickly manufacturing sector is up by 5%. The government even predicted last week that the 11.9% unemployment rate would fall below 3 million by July, which would be the first time that had happened since 1984. But both opposition politicians and some economists were skeptical of the claim, and noted as well that Lawson's tax cuts came about largely because record corporate profits and a surge...
...calls for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Kinnock will try to recover ground this week when he is set to meet with President Reagan in Washington and tell him that he supports keeping U.S. cruise missiles in Britain as long as U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks continue. Meanwhile, Thatcher will burnish her foreign policy credentials when she travels to Moscow next week to confer with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
Some Laborites feel that the best they can hope for in an early election is a "hung" Parliament, with the increasingly popular Alliance holding the balance of power. But if the economy continues to improve, thus vindicating the redoubtable Prime Minister's tough policies, Margaret Thatcher may not have to call the moving vans to 10 Downing Street for at least another few years...
Such shirts are the most noted creation of British Designer Katharine Hamnett, who showed up at a 1984 London fashion-biz reception to shake hands with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sporting a T that had something rather pointed to say about the presence of Pershing missiles in Europe. "I didn't realize the effect wearing that T shirt would have on my reputation," the designer insists. The incident, well covered in the press, did make her a bit notorious, which was a novelty. She had, after all, already spent some time being one of the best designers in England...