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Thatcher's concern for the emerging middle class contrasts with her distaste for organized labor. In the three decades before she took over, wildcat strikes had torn holes in the country's economy. Major trade unions were considered more powerful than the government, and labor unrest helped topple two Prime Ministers, Edward Heath in 1974 and James Callaghan in 1979. Thatcher changed all that. Starting in 1980 she pushed through legislation to limit picketing rights, ban secondary picketing and make national unions financially responsible for the actions of their members. She has taken on a number of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain All Revved Up | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...dialogue between Guterman and Chapman continues. "Larry's always been torn between his technical and creative drives...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: An Animated Lunch With Larry | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...emphasize that this tension of competing interests on the part of the University and its members is more than just a story of the strains accompanying the process of assimiliation of an ethnic group. In other situations and in other times students of other non-English ethnicities have felt torn between the desires for assimiliation and social mobility and the need to identify with their ethnic group. For most, this conflict is predominantly internal. For Black students, the battle is external as well, involving the daily, Herculean labor of confronting a broader university population which in one breath insists that...

Author: By Camille M. Caesar, | Title: Reflecting on The Diversity Principle | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...violently disparate visual elements. Ziggurat shapes and plant leaves appear obsessively ("I can't drop them"), and his posters are frequently fenced off with thick bars at the perimeter, frames within frames. His sensibility is Californian but more edgy than mellow. Surfaces are often made to look scratched and torn, and his palette has grown darker and richer over the past few years. "If I don't get a little resistance from clients," Manwaring says, "I don't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Nouvelle Cuisine For the Eyes | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...course, there is the enigma of Richard Somers. Although he is an unlikeable, pompous snob, his inner conflicts are potentially compelling. He is intensely torn between Kangaroo and the Reds between power and the ideals he fought for in England. But the audience cannot become involved because the conflict is not believable...

Author: By Jennifer M. Oconnor, | Title: Kangaroo | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

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