Word: reform
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Perhaps the most impressive thing about Harvard's effort at curriculum reform has been its success thus far in moving along without serious interruption. Dean Rosovsky and James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and chairman of the task force on the core curriculum, have generally revealed themselves as masters of tact in their desire to avoid setting up the backs of any possible faculty opposition...
...general tax revenues to shore up the near-bankrupt fund; the House is expected to do the same. In addition, Carter wants to boost payroll taxes for employers alone, but Congress is expected to approve a stop-gap hike in taxes for both employers and employees. Welfare reform is coming under increasing attack from groups that feel threatened by it. Labor, for example, is worried that the creation of 1.4 million public-service jobs at the $2.30 minimum-wage level will have a depressing effect on wage scales around the country...
Even farther down on the congressional agenda is the long-awaited tax-reform program. The President is expected to propose a plan later this month. But advance information that capital gains will be taxed as ordinary income has already aroused stiff opposition among businessmen. Scenting an issue, House Minority Leader John Rhodes thundered: "Poor economic policies have created a bad case of the jitters among the American people." Rhodes called for an across-the-board tax cut to prevent another recession. Al Ullman, Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, made the same plea. For most members...
Under such pressure, city officials asked the state legislature for reform. As a result, Neville has once more delayed pressing her claim. Meanwhile, tiring of such legal imbroglios, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in a separate but similar case, has pushed the legislature to act on the question of sovereign immunity by the end of 1978. If the legislators do not allow citizens to make "reasonable" claims against the government by then, the court threatened to abolish the doctrine on its own-and without an limit to government liability...
...Reform is difficult to achieve so long as the property tax is the main source of revenue for most local governments-and attempts to replace it in that role by enacting sales or income taxes or making existing ones higher also excite bitter resistance. The best short-term hope remains relentless pressure on local governments to hold down spending. So long as property taxes continue to rise more rapidly than family incomes, many a homeowner no longer can be certain that his house will indefinitely remain his castle...