Word: reform
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Arguments for and against the proposed agency center around a few key points. Opponents of the legislation say that if the consumer offices that already exist were not doing their job, then Congress has the responsibility and authority to reform them and then do a better job supervising them. passage of the ACP so that Ford would not have to exercise his threatened veto against the vociferous consumerists. Since the agency is initially budgeted for $15 million, and $25 million thereafter, Congress Watch claims the reorganization will mean an immediate savings of some $5 million per year...
Most condemn him, but they fear reform more...
...council's main goals, according to Keniston, is to "stimulate debate" about public policy. With the across-the-board reforms it advocates-all "consistent with the classic liberal view," Keniston concedes-All Our Children will no doubt spark controversy. While the council's shift of emphasis from the effects of the family's psychological structure to the impact of society on children is a constructive approach, the suggested solutions seem simplistic. All too often, the power of federal mandate seems to be invoked by the council as a magic cureall; wave the wand of legislation, they imply...
...Wilson says, no one has considered in depth the problem of finding teaching staff for the basic core courses, a problem that has caused similar efforts at curricular reform to run aground before. If the required courses are taught by less-than-stellar professors, nearly everyone agrees that students will regard such requirements as chores rather than as essential components of their education...
...hope that a moderate regime would come in, a reform regime. And there was evidence, we thought, that a number of the relatively informed, educated, enlightened Ethiopians might well take power," Eddison says. "But that didn't happen. A number of them were jailed or killed and eventually the power shift went the other way to the extreme left...