Word: primes
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...saying what some others also thought." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, for example, may have to come out in the open in slowing down the movement toward a common E.C. currency, a goal heatedly opposed by Thatcher and Kohl's own Bundesbank. A new, more European-minded British Prime Minister might also complicate Franco-German relations by simply joining in the subtle games of balance of power within a European Community still adjusting to the enhanced status of a united Germany...
...that same British establishment went on in its editorial to fault Thatcher for complacency. She was blamed for failing to defuse the threat to her position that had begun 10 days earlier with the devastating resignation speech in the House of Commons by Sir Geoffrey Howe, former Deputy Prime Minister...
Howe launched Thatcher's downfall. He attacked the Prime Minister's public undermining of her ministers' policies, comparing it to sending out batsmen in a cricket game with their bats broken by the captain. He said Thatcher saw a continent "positively teeming with ill-intentioned people scheming, in her words, 'to extinguish democracy...
...general election. It is expected that the Tories will call the election as late as possible, which could mean the spring of 1992. But the inflation rate, now running at 10.9%, is slackening, and the pound, linked to the E.C.'s Exchange Rate Mechanism, is strong. The next Prime Minister may be able to lower interest rates and even spend more money in the social areas Thatcher was accused of neglecting so badly -- education and health services...
...continue to berate the opposition in the House of Commons, albeit from the back benches. That politics is a cruel business, Thatcher understood. She neither gave nor expected quarter. As Neville Cole, a London accountant, put it, "It will be strange to say Mrs. Thatcher and not mean the Prime Minister." Now everyone must get used to it, and a good number may come...