Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston, the voters tossed out of office a trio of the city's antibusing leaders, including Louise Day Hicks, the soft-spoken but tough-talking former councilwoman who had become the symbol of resistance to integration. Simultaneously, however, the voters turned down a reform of the city charter designed to make it harder-by changing representational patterns-for one small, determined group, like the antibusers, to have more power than they deserve. Charter reform succumbed to a cautious electorate that preferred to switch candidates instead of the system...
...devise a salvage plan for the 3-sq.-mi. area, where about 400,000 people now live (compared with about 530,000 in 1970). Last week Watson got some unsolicited but worthwhile advice from I.D. Robbins, a part-time columnist for the New York Daily News and reform-minded real estate developer...
...Chief Santiago Carrillo seems determined to establish himself as the St. Paul of Eurocommunism-a roving missionary for that brand of Western European Marxism that professes to be compatible with democracy and independent of Moscow. Earlier this year, Carrillo published a manifesto asserting that European Marxists should work toward reform through the ballot box rather than revolution. Now he is taking his gospel on the road...
...together an economic policymaking apparatus that often seems to be running a Washington replay of the classic Abbott and Costello baseball routine "Who's on first?" As the President and his aides have zigged and zagged-proposing and then abandoning a $50 tax rebate, touting a major tax-reform program, then delaying it and shifting the emphasis to tax cuts-businessmen, brokers and economic forecasters have complained that the Administration's economic voice is muffled and mystifying...
...Last week, putting on the record what was already known, he told a Senate committee that the "first priority" of Carter's tax bill will be to lower rates, and that the measure will be kept "relatively simple to build confidence." That apparently means it will contain little reform; as Blumenthal well knows, the President's intention to propose such tough reforms as taxing capital gains at ordinary-income rates has been a prime reason for business anxiety...