Word: styles
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Cabinets, her leadership must have felt like returning to school: she often treated them as if they were errant pupils, hectoring them and making decisions for them. Leaks from upper levels of the party accused her of squelching Cabinet debate and trying to impose a presidential-style system. The combative Prime Minister put much of this down to male chauvinism, saying, "When a woman is strong, she is strident. If a man is strong, gosh, he's a good...
More is written about that leadership style, however, than about her undeniable substance. Like her good friend Ronald Reagan, founder of his own ism, she grew up in a small 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...
...army of 5,000 sales agents spread throughout 285 offices in 49 states -- most of them inexperienced, ill trained and often crammed like cattle into boiler-room offices. The agents memorized scripted pitches that they parroted to customers, usually over the phone. The firm also uses a pyramid-style structure, similar to Amway's, in which agents recruit others in return for a cut of new revenues...
...wound quickly," said Alan Clark, junior Minister of Defense and a Thatcher supporter. Echoed Timothy Raison, a Tory M.P. and Hurd backer: "We simply must put all this rancor behind us and unite." A Thatcher admirer to the last, Hurd nevertheless called for an end to her confrontational style of politics. "We must practice persuasion rather than assertion," he said...
There won't be any surprises from the Crimson. They will play their style of ball--the run-and-gun long-range-bombing offense--and they'll apply full court pressure on defense...