Thatcher

Streep's Mrs. Thatcher is eerily watchable and aurally exact (and she did not even use a voice coach).

He said the Thatcher administration was interested in an academic analysis.

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

Thatcher and Reagan were determined to go on the ideological offensive. Their political rhetoric began to heat up.

Denis Thatcher did not give interviews, but his wife knew the difference his business experience could make to her political judgment.

As with Deng, many commentators did not know quite what to make of Thatcher's ambitions.

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

Back in London, there were policy constraints, spending cuts, a diminished world role even under Mrs Thatcher.

Yet as the film starts with Thatcher as a senile, lonely old lady, it inadvertently garners sympathy for her.

"You would not have had a Thatcher government if you listened to opinion polls, " he said.

I did tell her that when Thatcher was elected it was only a matter of time before we began to see profound change.

RALPH HARRIS: (laughs) Thatcher's office came on and said could she come and drop in to see him.

At least the Thatcher government felt able to cut taxes as it set about privatiseing utilities and hacking back corporatist controls.

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

It was one that the Thatcher government had to win, and victory ended decades of national decline.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) did not support the NUM, seeming to support Thatcher's call for a national ballot.

Lady Thatcher was the only prime minister to emerge well in terms of foreign policy.

Hayek returned gushing , and wrote Thatcher, urging her to follow Chile's aggressive model more faithfully.

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

Many years ago, Denis Thatcher was on a trip to India with his wife Margaret, then leader of the Conservative party.

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.

Minutes after he left the palace precincts, Thatcher was on her way to "kiss hands" and receive the royal commission to form a government.

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

Mrs Thatcher spoke the language of the small shopkeeper from her native Lincolnshire.

Thatcher had no time for conventional, Keynesian economists who urged her to use government money to lessen the pain.

The law backs that old Judge Thatcher up and helps him to keep me out of my property.

If Mrs. Thatcher took any notice of all this unctuous advice then there is no evidence of it.

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 more active the local Tories are, the more the "folklore of the terrible years of Thatcher is fading" , says Mr Bebb.

Mrs. Thatcher turned pale, and sank into a pew, just as Aunt Polly, talking briskly with a friend, passed by. Aunt Polly said.

All that helps to explain the Tory party's difficulties in thinking straight about Mrs Thatcher, or about itself.

More important, Denis Thatcher provided the emotional, financial and social security for her own career.

meanwhile, amid talk of the end of the Thatcher-Reagan era, the American government has promised to put $250 billion into its banks.

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

But a lot of them are going to break that connection if Thatcher persists in refusing to contemplate sanctions against South Africa.

Mrs Thatcher came to believe that she had been tricked into accepting the Single European Act in 1987.

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

Right back in 1990, Mrs Thatcher foresaw with painful clarity the devastation it was bound to cause.

Such a tense situation in the United Kingdom during the Thatcher government is obvious.

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

Individually, they brought their countries forward, especially Mrs. Thatcher, whose tough reforms transformed the British economy.

To her credit Mrs. Thatcher acts like a man and expects to be treated like a man.

It seems old fashioned, and was ended by the Thatcher government in an effort to make the City competitive with Wall Street.

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

Mrs Thatcher knew this would be the result of their deranged plan, which is why she fought to stop it.

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

The dress sense of male consorts is an even bigger issue now then it was in the Thatcher era.

Blair, and Thatcher before him, were able to create a new image for Britain and made the country a modern world power.

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 Enemy Within remains the clue to Thatcher's psychological makeup surely?

The 1984 miners' strike lasted for almost a year, before Mrs Thatcher defeated the National Union of Mineworkers.

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

I am just hoping Mrs Thatcher is well enough to see me as I so admire her.

Thatcher was sometime known as the Iron Lady because of her personal and political toughness.

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

Those who most brilliantly succeed , as did Mrs. Thatcher, nearly always proves to be the ones disposed to destroy themselves through pride.

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.

Since the Reagan-Thatcher revolution of the 1980s, governments of almost every ideological stripe have embraced entrepreneurship.

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

But he has no equivalent of Lady Thatcher's council-house policy for the middle class.

The strike ended with the miners' defeat and the Thatcher government able to consolidate its free market programme.

Thatcher would have seen through Bachmann's ideologically driven scientific ignorance and absurd social bigotry in a matter of moments.

But Mrs Thatcher's efforts at deficit reduction were accompanied by sharp falls in short-term interest rates and a currency depreciation.

Laws banning file-sharing are likely to prove as unpopular as the poll tax that helped bring down the Thatcher government.

NARRATOR: Perhaps the greatest political impact was on the Labor Party that had all along opposed Thatcher's free-market policies.

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

Prof Sherman points to IPOs in Asia, which often include an institutional and a public tranche (as did the Thatcher privatisations).

Mary Kay Thatcher, a lobbyist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, said farmers would have "serious concerns" about that provision.

In a somewhat unlikely claim, Perry also insists that Mrs Thatcher is an avid viewer, particularly of Joey and Chandler's scenes.

Already many have declared the death of the Thatcher-Reagan revolution and the end of an era of "free-market fundamentalism" .

They chanted "waste of money" in protest at the millions of dollars spent on Wednesday's funeral and waved anti-Thatcher signs.

Forbidden from public speaking by her doctors, Lady Thatcher is in no position to defend her legacy or instruct her remaining disciples.

In Mrs Thatcher's case that came with the introduction of the poll tax and a deep economic recession.

Bob Tanner was there, and Johnny Miller, and Jeff Thatcher, when I said it.

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

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

The reforms of the Thatcher era not only became core tenets of New Labour's policies but were widely admired across the European Union.

The meshing of her public and private lives placed near schizoid demands on Thatcher.

For a second, you can see Thatcher's hat jiggle a few inches and then be still again.

He will return early from his visit to Europe this afternoon following the death of Baroness Thatcher, Downing Street said.

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

"I wouldn't say I loved Thatcher by the end of it, " says Riseborough, "but I did end up feeling very warm towards the character. "

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

What he says in private is enough to make even Mrs. Thatcher's hair curl .

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.

mrs . thatcher was very ill , and a great part of the time delirious.

But Mr Hunt favours practical reforms over the open conflict with the broadcaster that characterised the Thatcher years.

Nevertheless, Thatcher's sometimes hectoring, sometimes condescending manner irritated many voters.

It is in domestic policy, however, that Thatcher's government will differ most from its predecessor.

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

Most mainstream news websites have launched feature pages, reviewing Thatcher's political career, especially her relationship with China.

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

Peel and the party's current leader, David Cameron, are indissolubly linked by Disraeli, Salisbury, Churchill, Macmillan and Thatcher.

Even before Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979, rows over the budget had become a theme of Britain's presence in Brussels.

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

Whether Tom is running away from villains, treasure hunting, or showing off for Becky Thatcher, it's one thrilling escapade after another.

"I think we must be realistic, " Thatcher said in an interview broadcast Tuesday by British Broadcasting Corp. radio.

When Kane's mother, father and Thatcher walk from the living room into the kitchen, they sit down at a table.

The ideas of Reagan and Thatcher, bringing the private sector back to a place of honor, played a role.

NARRATOR: Thatcher wanted to end their dependence on government subsidies and submit them to the discipline of the marketplace.

As for the budget, the main demand of all other 26 countries will be to scrap the British budget rebate won by Mrs Thatcher.

Perhaps that is why a key policy of the Thatcher years is back at the heart of the coalition's new growth strategy.

Mrs. Thatcher's 11-year tenure had much in common with Liverpool's, both in its length and its attitudes toward organized labor.

Lady Thatcher's achievement was to recapture those words for Conservatism.

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.

When Mrs Thatcher came to power, she and her advisers had been thinking for years about the policies and ideas they intended to pursue.

One by one, the signature policies and achievements of the Thatcher years are being dismantled in Britain.

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. "

One of Mrs Thatcher's most famous phrases was: "There is no alternative. "

Thatcher gained notoriety around the world as Britain's first female Prime Minister.

My difficulty with the film is that there is no sense of Thatcher's political coming of age.

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

NARRATOR: Thatcher's free-market message seemed to offer an escape from a Polish economy that was debt-ridden and riddled with shortages.

Thatcher shares a fear widespread among Tories that in pursuing SALT Carter has lost sight of the global Soviet threat.

It was indeed a quaint notion that under Mrs. Thatcher the Troy Party would only appeal to the suburban south-east.

Lady Thatcher, who on May 4th marks the 30th anniversary of her ascent to power, remains a towering, if spectral, presence.

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

Thatcher had agreed to meet the Communist leadership provided she could also visit the port of Gdansk.

Besides, there are many women, Madame Curit and Margreat Thatcher, to name only a few, in history who work as scientists and politicians.

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

Thatcher loyalists are outraged that their heroine should be portrayed as decrepit, on the brink of dementia.

Yet the Thatcher government's determination to end decades of national decline meant that the course was maintained.

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.

Until the Thatcher era, it inhabited a separate building in Old Queen Street (there were many "homophobic" jokes about the address).

Baroness Thatcher has often been accused by her politically motivated enemies of callousness.

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.

And so Lady Thatcher's dictum does not seem to apply.

Mr Freer says Lady Thatcher inspired him to enter politics.

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.

As for the recession: until Mrs Thatcher, unemployment and standing in the polls seemed more or less to correlate.

"We are seeing considerable change in the cider market" , says Martin Thatcher, managing director of Thatchers.

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

Thatcher has few close friends and no real intellectual interests outside politics.

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

Now the whole world knows Mrs Thatcher as the first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Where was the mention of Margaret Thatcher's victims?

Mrs. Thatcher joined in eloquent attacks on the inefficiency of nationalized industries.

The closing of the Thatcher era is an event of global significance.

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

As proof, it promised never to raise the top rate of income tax from the 40 per cent set by the Thatcher government in the 1990s.

But Mrs Thatcher was far more than the sum of her actions.

On the day of her election victory, 30 years ago today, Lady Thatcher's mind lay open.

Lady Thatcher would see this for what it is. She would block it with every ounce of her body. Because she knows where it is headed.

Thatcher is solely and exclusively British. The Queen is a good many other things besides a British Queen.

In the US and Britain, the centre-left learned it could win elections only by accepting the Reagan-Thatcher settlement.

Thatcher: Listen, I really don't know why you're making this into such a big issue.

Many of Thatcher's colleagues believe that the experience of being Prime Minister will temper her Iron Lady toughness.

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

Lady Thatcher knew that in politics, as in law, the jury seeks motive and intent.

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

Wednesday was not the first protest since Thatcher's death.

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

Thatcher has said she will abolish the rating system. Watch this space, she won't. No one will.

Downing Street was packed with well-wishers and photographers when Thatcher arrived.

Maggie Thatcher dealt with this in the UK over 20 years ago, and the US now needs the next Maggie Thatcher.

Thatcher, who transformed Britain with her free-market revolution, had been in poor health since suffering minor strokes in 2002.

Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you.

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

In France, reaction to Lady Thatcher's death has been more guarded than in many other countries. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.

I once heard that former British Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher said "Happiness is a ticked off list" .

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.

Unlike her brother, she shrank from publicity, and had always found being Mrs. Thatcher's daughter hard to take.

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

Yet already voices (including Lady Thatcher's Tory heirs) are pushing to limit executive pay.

Thatcher romped home with a majority of 16, 260 in the Conservative landslide, and her political career was launched.

It is not likely that Carter and Thatcher will develop an equally close relationship.

As the film trots through history, we see Thatcher's high point: actual war.

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

next day he was drunk , and he went to judge thatcher ' s and bullyragged him.

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

This blind and simplistic faith in markets was, perhaps, understandable in the Thatcher years; it is less so now.

Mrs Thatcher wanted the rivalry, because she wanted the creative tension.

That helped prepare the ground for the Reagan and Thatcher reforms.

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

Thatcher said, adding the practice at first did not seem to her as the way ahead for Hong Kong.

As the funeral procession made its way to the cathedral, opponents of Thatcher lined the route.

Margaret Thatcher embraced the deepest of single markets.

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

The Thatcher government faced a severe domestic economy.

george thatcher , her husband and the conductor of " prince , " is also a prominent composer and lyricist.

While in power, Thatcher became an enemy of many on the left.

As a result, in the Reagan administration and the Thatcher era, the Western world to return to the path of deregulating the economy.

Meryl Streep, who plays Thatcher in The Iron Lady, invited me back for apple pie after a screening.

One man wants to bind the Queen and Baroness Thatcher with ropes and then make love to each woman in turn.

The stagflation of the 1970s prepared the way for the Reagan and Thatcher revolutions.

By the end of the Thatcher era, free-market reforms were being pursued in China, eastern Europe, India and the Soviet Union.

According to Thatcher, her father understood that if you suddenly changed your wardrobe people would want to know who paid for it.

Thatcher's death, he hopes, will ignite fresh debate about Britain's future.

Mrs Thatcher venerated the free enterprise of the US.

Judge Thatcher had conceived a great opinion of Tom.

Mrs Thatcher had been in conflict with her senior civil servants.

The female superior is the first female prime minister in English history, known as the politics of the iron lady thatcher.

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

Thatcher had suffered from medical issues in recent years.

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 .

Mrs Thatcher came to power 18 months before Ronald Reagan and the two swiftly developed an ideological love affair.

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

The coal mines and the miners'union became Thatcher's biggest challenge.

Thatcher: Recycle bin? Garbage is garbage!

All I can say is that the hatred Thatcher invokes is bitter and visceral for those of us who lived through it.

I had been actually committed to play Margret Thatcher.

The London teachers were so angry about the stingy offer of 12 pounds London Allowance increase which Mrs. Thatcher made to them.

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.

to do with whether we should get more maternity leave from Madame Papandreou than from Madame Thatcher. That is not the issue.

The UK under Margaret Thatcher wins its budget rebate.

mrs . thatcher was happily at work in her ministry , but not making any headlines.

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

The film's problem is that it buys into Thatcher's own interpretation of herself far too much.

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

Whatever one's views about Mrs Thatcher, she left her mark.

She plays Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Iron Lady.

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

For sure, he and the grateful Mrs Thatcher were close allies.

Mrs. Thatcher was dubbed "The Iron Lady" .

To many Conservatives, he became a hero, second only in stature to Mrs Thatcher herself.

The Thatcher and post-Thatcher eras were not wasted.

And, in yet another echo of Lady Thatcher, he has learnt from previous experience.

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

So is the Thatcher era definitively over?

In 1984 Margaret Thatcher secured a special rebate for Britain.

Mrs Thatcher's firstname is Margaret.

Mrs Thatcher has resigned. She announced her decision this morning.

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

Thatcher, 81, has made few public comments or appearances since suffering a series of strokes five years ago.

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

More became home-owners, accepting Mrs Thatcher's invitation to buy their houses from the state.

Mrs Thatcher adored Mr Harris's ideas.

Thatcher says this is because a longer phase shift allows the brain to recruitmany more neurons for the problem at hand.

CHARLES POWELL, Thatcher's Foreign Affairs Advisor, 1983-1991: The Falklands s*ed her.

Strong and true and not natural fans of Thatcher.

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

Mrs. Thatcher is a tough lady.