Thatcher can be classed together with David Lloyd George and Clement Attlee as political leaders who sought power with
the express intention of changing society, and did so to the best of their ability.
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of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with
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Although measuring outcomes rather than inputs has been the
expressed intention of standards - based reforms for at least two decades, policy
changes that make that shift real have been slow to come to fruition.