Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem, but others claimed this would only make the revolutionary rumblings in the poor East End of London louder. Some said to indulge the poor but others argued that this would only make the working classes' tendency to indulge themselves worse. The solution everyone finally agreed upon was reform. The middle class would instill the poor with their own morality, making the whole society a mirror image of themselves...
...poverty in the middle of their riches would only bring the rumblings of working-class revolution closer to home. To indulge those who had themselves ignored the middle class doctrine of self-improvement would only encourage their own tendency to gratify themselves. The only answer that remained was reform. If the middle class was to save society from the touch of the "undeserving" poor, the sole solution was to save the "deserving" poor by recreating them in a middle class image of themselves...
...think we have addressed some controversial issues, for one thing, that create uncertainty about the future-to evolve a new energy policy without knowing what the outcome will be. We also are addressing some of the basic questions concerning employment with our welfare-reform proposal. We are now coming up with a tax measure...
...stock market values has been the increase of fluidity of the money supply and the increase in interest rates put on by the Federal Reserve Board. But I think that once we get through this session with an energy package that is adequate and once the tax-reform proposals are revealed, there will be restoration of some business confidence in myself...
...businessman myself-that is my profession-I understand the special problems of the business community. And in the tax-reform package we hope to stimulate our economy to some degree, provide easier accumulation of capital for increased investment. And I think that these two basic premises of the tax-reform package, combined with success in the energy field, will be a great step toward restoring, or at least establishing, increased confidence...