Word: reform
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Therefore we strongly support efforts in Congress to raise the minimum permissable age of mandatory retirement, in hope that mandatory retirement will be eliminated altogether. American society is badly in need of reforms to provide equal opportunity for women and minorities. But the need for broad reform should not be grounds for continued discrimination against the elderly. It is unclear whether the passage of the bill now in Congress will cripple attempts to implement reforms favoring opportunities for women and minorities, but it is clear that a continuation of mandatory retirement will limit the opportunities of the nation's elderly...
State Rep. Barney Frank '61. Boston City Councilor Lawrence S. DiCare '71, and Rosemarie Sansone, a candidate for the Boston City Council, spoke to 25 undergraduates advocating both Sansone's campaign and Boston charter reform last night in the Kirkland Junior Common Room. The speakers asked students to volunteer for their causes...
...traveled to Europe, the research for the thesis involves a great deal of time and effort--and, maybe, a little fun. Brad Behrman '78 spent his summer in Washington on an Institute of Politics grant, interviewing bureaucrats and others for his thesis on the politics of aviation regulatory reform. What with accumulated tapes of interviews, stacks of books and committee hearings and reports that he gathered over the summer, he says "My biggest problem coming back here was excess baggage...
Given Carter's tax-reform approach, businessmen may begin to wonder if they are not being treated like economy-class passengers...
...setting was a conference on constitutional reform, and Gorton, 66, kicked off the proceedings by quoting Omar Khayyam: "Would we not shatter it to bits-and then remold it nearer to the Heart's desire...