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Margaret Thatcher did exaggerate a bit, but she was essentially right when she said that "Reagan won the cold war without firing a shot. "

These questions seem to me to be far more urgent than before any general election since 1979, when Margaret Thatcher came to power.

Or Margaret Thatcher in her pomp, allying clarity of thought to an utter conviction in the rightness of her judgment?

Margaret Thatcher, former UK prime minister, was right when she said that exchange rates were a matter for markets to decide.

They miss the point. As a politician, Margaret Thatcher was a study in reinvention.

Called Britain's Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher was a woman with high standards, a short temper and a taste for whiskey.

NARRATOR: Keith Joseph's most significant adherent was an up-and-coming Conservative politician named Margaret Thatcher.

Margaret Thatcher, famous, or infamous, for her eagerness to take an axe to the big state, never dared to cut so deep.

"She is a sort of a Margaret Thatcher figure in the sense that she is a very strong person, " he says.

Blair had only one verbal shortcoming, which he shared with Margaret Thatcher: no sense of humour.

The rot began to set in for Conservatives, of course, during Margaret Thatcher's heyday.

Parts of Britain's media remind me of the trade unions before Margaret Thatcher. They feel untouchable.

"Bin Laden" , he said, "is the illegitimate child of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. "

Sizewell B, Britain's newest reactor, was intended by Margaret Thatcher's government to be the first of a fleet of ten such plants.

Margaret Thatcher, no friend of the unions, took care to have the police onside whenever she took on organised labour.

And yet after 1979 Margaret Thatcher showed that a determined government could shake up a sclerotic economy (and defeat the miners).

She recently won an Oscar for her role of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The triumph of grocer's daughter Margaret Thatcher put paid to her party's toffs who sneered at her cohort as "garagistes" .

Thatcherism referred to the policies put forward by Margaret Thatcher, the first woman prime minister in England in 1979.

Gorbachev was about to visit Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom; what should he tell her about Soviet force levels in Europe?

Margaret Thatcher of Britain and Indira Gandhi of India were vastly powerful politicians and global ideological icons as well.

Margaret Thatcher, still fiery from the Falklands war, at first disagreed with him; popular newspapers talked of betrayal.

It was also seen as a major political and ideological victory for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party.

"No wobbling, " as Margaret Thatcher used to say.

Margaret Thatcher made no secret of her contempt for the wimpish men around her.

He was also proved largely right in foreseeing the severity of the recession that came later under Margaret Thatcher.

It may need a genuine fiscal crisis finally to persuade the French that, as Margaret Thatcher once put it: "There is no alternative. "

Female politicians such as Margaret Thatcher and Mrs Clinton have taught younger women that anything is possible.

A year later, Margaret Thatcher came to power in Britain.

Or, in the somewhat less coherent words of Margaret Thatcher, "the unexpected happens" and "fail-safe plans are designed to go wrong. "

Following Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Keynesian full employment policies were abandoned and markets deregulated.

He welcomed the growth of a pragmatic, peaceful approach in Britain after Margaret Thatcher crushed militant unionism in the 1980s.

MARGARET THATCHER: If you h*e a free society under a rule of law, it produces both dignity of the individual and prosperity.

Hayek's views became more respectable, informing the liberalising, privatising governments of Margaret Thatcher.

NARRATOR: With the economy in apparently terminal decline, the people voted for a new Conservative government headed by Margaret Thatcher.

As for the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, her fault was not her famed toughness but complacent inactivity.

Margaret Thatcher thought government imprisoned the individual; Mr Cameron thinks it suffocates civil society.

Margaret Thatcher, that other legendary female scientist turned head of government, famously once declared "the lady's not for turning. "

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died at the age of 87.

His friends included Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, and Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state.

Sir Alan and others hammered this message home to Joseph and his closest political ally, Margaret Thatcher.

By contrast, his predecessor and bitter rival Tony Blair came third in the list of success, only marginally behind Margaret Thatcher.

"Can Nicolas Sarkozy be a French Margaret Thatcher? " asked Les Echos, a business newspaper.

Contributors include Max Boot, Lady Margaret Thatcher, George Will, and Condoleezza Rice, among others.

It has now been five years since Margaret Thatcher resigned as Britain's Prime Minister.

1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Today, Margaret Thatcher's autobiography, first published in 1993, reads like a prophecy.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been released from a London hospital after reportedly feeling faint.

For the first time since Margaret Thatcher handbagged the world in 1979, Britain looks like the West's test-tube (see article).

Margaret Thatcher's union- bashing in the 1980s had resulted in a more flexible labour market.

Where was the mention of Margaret Thatcher's victims?

Garagiste - (1992) the owner of a garage or filling station in Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

As Margaret Thatcher once remarked: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. "

Officials talk of "incredibly difficult" cuts ahead, dwarfing in scale the economies made by Margaret Thatcher after she took power in 1979.

He praises Margaret Thatcher of Britain for privatizing a slew of government-owned businesses.

MARGARET THATCHER, a former British prime minister, reportedly got by on just four hours' sleep a night.

Margaret Thatcher's late husband, Denis, exemplified the former approach.

So mused Margaret Thatcher on the eve of her first general election victory on May 3 1979.

EUROPE helped bring down two of Britain's recent prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

"We've beaten the Germans twice and now they're back, " said Margaret Thatcher, Britain's prime minister.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is a typical spade-type talent.

Margaret Thatcher (1925--); British public official, who became Britain's first woman prime minister .

The profit motive has been making further steady advances in the state sector since Margaret Thatcher's outsourcing campaign in the 1980s.

On 29 October 1986, Margaret Thatcher cut the ribbon across an eight-mile section of the London Orbital near Watford, closing the circle.

Margaret Thatcher embraced the deepest of single markets.

Her nickname "Iron Lady" was later inherited by Margaret Thatcher.

In the spring of 2001, at the Conservative Party Conference in Plymouth, Margaret Thatcher made a joke.

A couple dressed as caricatures of Prime Minister David Cameron and Margaret Thatcher mime scissors with their hands.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street .

I know Margaret Thatcher, and congresswoman, you're no Margaret Thatcher.

But my stomach was churning because of the film in which I had just seen her. She plays Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Iron Lady.

The UK under Margaret Thatcher wins its budget rebate.

He has never bonded with the striving classes in the way Margaret Thatcher, or indeed Mr Blair, did.

"Please put on the Margaret Thatcher mask" . . . in Russian!

She plays Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Iron Lady.

In Margaret Thatcher's words, "This is no time to go wobbly" .

That decline has been Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's greatest concern since she came to office in 1979.

In 1984 Margaret Thatcher secured a special rebate for Britain.

It's also 2008: Margaret Thatcher may have looked terrific in a blue power suit, but that was 20 years ago.

Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of the UK on May 4 1979 and remained in office for more than 11 years.

In Britain Margaret Thatcher slashed the top marginal income tax rate from 83% to 40% between 1979 and 1988.

It is a classic marginal, falling to Margaret Thatcher in 1983 and to Labour in the 1997 landslide.

Next week it will be 20 years since Margaret Thatcher fell.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was discharged from the hospital after an operation on her arm,

Margaret Thatcher, a great Tory leader, is also one of the party's biggest problems

Margaret Thatcher knew the single currency would devastate Europe Margaret Thatcher knew the single currency would devastate Europe

Now especially, the world needs to hold fast to Margaret Thatcher's principles

Statement by Secretary Kerry on the Death of Margaret Thatcher. doc

"We will reach our judgments not on intentions or on promises but on deeds and on results" (Margaret Thatcher)

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Margaret Thatcher, British politician, b. 1925

Margaret Thatcher prepares for victory in the 1983 general election

One is 1979, when Margaret Thatcher ousted Labour after the Winter of Discontent;