Word: powering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Simonds opened the scoring with a power-play goal with only 30 seconds remaining in the first period. The junior grazed an Alissi slap-shot which sailed by Yale netminder Maureen Magauren, putting Harvard (2-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy) ahead for good...
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...town, the daughter of a grocer and the inheritor of strong, traditional values. She saw nothing but infamy in what she regarded as socialism's sapping her country's strength. She determined to give enervated Britain a good shake and force it to become an economic and political world power once again. Arriving at 10 Downing Street, she embarked on policies that would encourage self-reliance and reward hard work. Her vision, she said, was "of a free, classless, open Britain...
...eight years of her first two terms, she broke the suffocating power of the trade unions by slicing away at them with restrictive legislation. She assumed tight control over the money supply, deregulated industry, built a free market economy and encouraged foreign investment. Believing personal wealth is a worthy objective, she cut the basic rate of income tax from 33% to 25% and the top rate from 83% to 40%. To cap it off, she sold to the public many of the enterprises postwar Labour governments had nationalized...
Thatcher relinquishes power this week, but her legacy is firmly in place. Her potential Tory successors proudly describe themselves as disciples of Thatcherism and pledge to continue it. More impressive still is the opposition Labour Party's turn from leftist economics and unilateral nuclear disarmament in the past three years toward more centrist policies to compete with Thatcherism at the polls. Even if Labour wins the next election, the public will not allow it to reassemble the huge governmental edifice Thatcher pulled down...