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...recommend changes for an ethics overhaul had called for a ban on honoraria to members of Congress for speaking engagements or similar work. Such honoraria provide thousands of dollars in outside income for senators and representatives in a system that critics, including Bush's ethics panel, contend allows for too much special interest influence on the representatives...
Glasnost remains Gorbachev's biggest hit. Only 10%, obviously the conservative traditionalists, contend that there is too much openness, with more than one-fifth of those over 60 claiming that glasnost has already gone too far. Young people are the most eager to press openness to the limit. In ; the under-30 group, 37% demand more glasnost...
Still, faculty members contend that the changeswere important steps towards democratizing FAS'structure. Yet some professors say now that thechanges in the faculty could have occurred lesspainfully if professors had not been as concernedabout the militant political mood of the students...
Some professors contend that the most importantchange resulting from the creation of the FacultyCouncil was the institutionalization of thestudent input to faculty decision-making. Underthe terms of the agreement, seats were reserved onvarious faculty committees for studentrepresentatives...
Still, faculty members contend that the changeswere important steps towards democratizing FAS'structure. Yet some professors say now that thechanges in the faculty could have occurred lesspainfully if professors had not been as concernedabout the militant political mood of the students...