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...takes is a change in the meaning of an acronym to spend a week in the woods, does that mean I can be a FOPper again? I am, after all, a fourth-year. We might as well be consistent with our terms and get rid of sophomore, junior and senior as well. It would also make it a little easier to figure out which of our friends have taken a little longer than usual to graduate--we'd have fifth and sixth-years. But I suppose that isn't what the chairman (excuse me, chairperson) of the steering committee...
...Margaret Thatcher's great concern was that decades of decline under omnipresent and meddlesome government might have destroyed the British people's initiative. Her passionate belief, she said, was that "free enterprise and competition are the engines of prosperity." But she feared that even if her Conservative ( government got rid of central planning, high taxation and other obstacles to economic growth, there might be no upsurge in response. "Supposing I put the ball at their feet, and they don't kick it?" she mused. "That was the nightmare...
...enjoying this." Said Ann Widdecombe, a Tory M.P., who reflected the remorse many in her party felt: "The rest of the world will think we are mad, as indeed we are," to have forced Thatcher out of office. Jack Straw, a Labour M.P., found it "wonderful to be rid of that awful woman." Liberal M.P. Menzies Campbell called her decision "brave but inevitable." Even Kinnock offered a grudging bit of praise, saying her departure showed "she amounts to more than those who have turned upon her in recent days...
...time to clean house...to get rid of waste and nonresponsiveness," said Dixon...
Gorbachev complied -- sort of. On Friday he delivered a finger-wagging, lectern-thumping address that was long on promises, short on specifics. Yes, Gorbachev said, he planned "to get rid of outdated, clearly useless structures" in the government and to bring into it "politicians and experts who are more popular and enjoy the widest support." That sounded like a reference to Yeltsin, but Gorbachev coyly avoided giving any names and offered few details of what changes he really had in mind...