Here they were, away from the damp, Sceptered Isle, tootling and honking through paradise in their gleaming, buffed chrome toys.

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It was Margaret Thatcher's extraordinary reforms--deep tax cuts, low inflation, privatizing government-controlled companies and public housing, and labor law reform--that turned this Sceptered Isle from being Europe's perennial sick man into its economic powerhouse (along with Ireland).

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It was Margaret Thatcher's extraordinary reforms deep tax cuts, low inflation, privatizing government-controlled companies and public housing, and labor law reform that turned this Sceptered Isle from being Europe's perennial sick man into its (along with Ireland) economic powerhouse.

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