Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic matters, Carter was so distracted by the Lance affair that he had to put off his plans to submit his tax-reform proposals, which he had planned to send to Congress next week; they will be delayed for at least another week. Meanwhile, an emboldened Senate was knocking holes in Carter's energy program, which had sailed through the House almost intact. The Senate Finance Committee dumped Carter's proposed penalty taxes on gas-guzzling cars in favor of its own bill to ban them outright, starting in 1980 with those getting less than 16 m.p.g. Next...
...Myerson, Miss America of 1945, the city's former consumer affairs commissioner and now a savvy political woman about town. In addition, Koch had a strategy. A self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity," he would adjust to the harsh new realities of life in the city by emphasizing management reform and by taking a tough line on fighting crime-including advocating capital punishment. He also became incumbent Mayor Abe Beame's sternest critic...
Utility Rate Reform Carter wants the Government empowered to order utilities to change their pricing policies. The aim: to eliminate the practice of offering cheaper rates to major business users of power and make utilities charge less for "juice" consumed at night and during other off-periods. The Senate Energy Committee last week said no; it sees the proposal as an invasion of states' rights...
...common-situs picketing bill. Labor leaders blamed the common-situs loss on their own failure to realize how hard a lobbying effort would be needed. They had no such excuse last week, when the House voted on the minimum wage; the AFL-CIO deployed 100 "educators on labor law reform" to spread its gospel. Result: another series of jolts...
Schwartz believes "the precedent to educational reform in the city of Boston is political reform." But even with an unresponsive school committee unlikely to improve in this November's election, gradual change has begun. Garrity's comprehensive court order, which some feel did not go far enough, forced desegregation, affirmative action and educational innovations onto a resisting system. In the short run it has produced violence and a significant enrollment drop but it has brought the system's mediocrity to the forefront of people's minds. It will take years to change the system but at least now, there...