they were free to pete; you began to get super…saver fares and super…apex fares and potato fares and peanuts fares …… an explosion of discounting and petition。 Well; those were dramatic。
ALFRED KAHN:一旦他們可以自由競爭,你開始得到超級-救助者費、超級頂點費、馬鈴薯費和花生費-折扣和競爭的大爆炸。噢,這真是富有戲劇性。
NARRATOR: The stage was set for deregulation of the ; and now these ideas were about to make their entrance in the very homeland of Gilbert and Sullivan。
旁白:美國經濟解除管制的舞臺已經搭好了,現在這些想法將把他們送進吉爾伯特和沙利文真正的祖國。
Chapter 15: Thatcher Takes the Helm '3:50'
第十五章:撒切爾掌權
Onscreen title: Britain; 1979
字幕標題:英國,1979年
WORKER: Well; 5 percent's no good to nobody; is it?
工人:噢,5個百分點對某些人士有用的,是嗎?
INTERVIEWER: Do you think you can win this strike?
採訪者:你認為這次罷工會勝利嗎?
WORKER: Yes; I do。
工人:是的,我這樣認為。
NARRATOR: They called it the Winter of Discontent。 It seemed as if everyone was on strike。
旁白:他們把這個冬天稱之為“不滿的冬天”,好像每個人都在舉行罷工。
MAN: I think it stinks; like all the other damn strikes in this country run by the filthy Socialist munist unions。
男人:我認為它討厭透頂,就像這個國家裡所有其他由骯髒的社會主義者共產主義者聯盟發動的該死的罷工一樣。
NARRATOR: The garbage men were out。 So were the ambulances。 And if you died; the gravediggers were out; too。
旁白:垃圾工人罷工;救護車罷工;即使你死了,挖墓者也罷工。
NARRATOR: With the economy in apparently terminal decline; the people voted for a new Conservative government headed by Margaret Thatcher。
旁白:由於經濟顯然處在惡化狀態,人們投票選舉了一位新的保守黨政府首腦-瑪格麗特。撒切爾。
LAURENCE HAYEK : Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister on the day of my father's birthday; so he sent her this telegram from Freiburg: ";Thank you for the best present to my 80th birthday that anyone could have given me。"; A few days later she wrote back from 10 Downing Street: &qu