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  • Downturn challenges Poland's tea-drinking fiscal hawk
    By Christian Lowe and Karolina Slowikowska WARSAW (Reuters) - With his fondness for tea in china cups and upper-class English accent, British-born Jacek Rostowski projects an air of cultivated calm, but the economic slowdown has put his job as Poland's finance minister in the balance. Rostowski, an admirer of ex-British leader Margaret Thatcher, has overseen one of Europe's few economic success ...
    June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Thatcher bounces back to record two key whiffs
    It wasn't a good stretch of outings last weekend in Denver for Padres left-handed reliever Joe Thatcher, who allowed a walk-off home run in one game and a game-winning hit in another.
    June 12, 2013 - San Diego Padres
  • Mick Jagger Reveals Admiration, Meetings with Margaret Thatcher
    In a recent interview, aging rocker Mick Jagger said he had two private meetings with the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who impressed him. Jagger added that he was surprised by many Brits who celebrated Thatcher's death this year. However, he didn't mention Thatcher's anti-union policies and attempts to dismantle the UK's health care system. "I was slightly surprised by all the ...
    June 12, 2013 - Opposing Views
Quotes

  • Bob Crow in The Guardian
    The leftwing union leader said: "This government are launching the biggest attack on the trade union movement since Margaret Thatcher set out to break the National Union of Mineworkers and the idea that we should sit there and take a lecture on...
  • Gordon Brown in Times Online
    Speaking at his monthly press conference in Downing Street, Mr Brown said: "I think Lady Thatcher saw the need for change. And I think whatever disagreements you have with her about certain policies - there was a large amount of unemployment at the...
  • Simon Mann in guardian.co.uk
    Mann said: "As far as I'm concerned, I am very anxious that Calil, Thatcher and one or two of the others, should face justice."

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