Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reform candidates and the state representative who co-sponsored the Massachusetts anti-abortion bill defeated anti-busing incumbents for Boston City...
Council and School Committee seats yesterday, while two reform referendum questions lost...
...life (29 years) and is a master of its parliamentary maz es. His intellectual powers are impressive ?he can deliver a brilliant 30-minute speech after just five minutes of briefing ?and his homespun metaphors cut right through economic obfuscation. Pressed by Senate liberals on tax reform last year, Long responded with a scathing definition: "Tax reform means 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' " In the Senate club, his politesse is unequaled: colleagues are never as beloved or distinguished as they are in their mothers' minds and Long's rhetoric...
...fatal mistake by basing his campaign on a promise to let the one-year-old state income tax expire next June. Bateman has argued that the 2% to 2.5% tax?which brings in about $1 billion a year?should be replaced by a legislative package that would include welfare reform, a selective job freeze and, if necessary, a "modest" increase in the state sales tax. The proposal has been roundly attacked by economists, editorialists?and many fellow Republican politicians. "A blueprint for disaster," charged the Trenton Times, arguing that the Bateman plan would raise property and sales taxes and most...
...from $24,000 to $60,000 annually. Yet no one?not Kissinger two years ago, nor the Carter Administration now, nor even George Meany?seriously wants the U.S. to pull out of the I.L.O., at least permanently. Critics do see a threatened U.S. withdrawal as a prod for necessary reform, the only measure that will goad the organization into getting off its political soapbox. There is a dispute only about when to act. Officials at the State Department and National Security Council want to continue the threat for another year; the Labor Department wants to pull out now. Anti...