Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relations between the two branches of Government had considerably warmed. Jimmy Carter was losing some but winning others. He was optimistic about the prospect of soon signing a new Panama Canal treaty,* which will face a tough fight on Capitol Hill. And last week he unloaded his massive welfare-reform proposal on Congress...
Scares has long held that elaborate consultations with the opposition on pending legislation could be interpreted as a "privileged relationship" that might erode his ability to govern. But when it became obvious that the Socialists did not have the votes to push through a crucial agrarian reform bill designed to reduce Communist control in the agricultural Alentejo, he had to compromise. While the C.D.S. refused to support the Socialist approach, the P.S.D. was swayed by Scares' offer to include some property-protection guarantees that it advocated and, more important, by a promise to hold "working group discussions" with...
When pushed, the bar is capable of substantial reform. Eighteen lawyers were disbarred or disciplined in the Watergate scandal, and D.C. Bar Disciplinary Counsel Fred Grabowsky now says: "Watergate may have been the best thing that ever happened to us." Prodded by Supreme Court decisions, the bar has belatedly begun backing group prepaid legal-service plans, Blue Shield-style arrangements that bring legal aid to middle-income citizens for a flat fee (the United Auto Workers, for instance, has installed such a system for its Chrysler workers). With some exceptions, bar groups have also pushed for expansion of Government legal...
...ideas than ever before. Nearly half the 218,000 A.B.A. members are now under 36 years old, and recent meetings have approved such once scandalous proposals as the decriminalization of marijuana possession. Says John Douglas, past president of the District of Columbia Bar: "There's more reform now, but it still isn't coming fast enough...
Pepper claims to speak for the 23 million Americans-almost 11% of the population-who are 65 and over. He complains that, oddly enough, these citizens were left exposed to unfair treatment by some past reform legislation: the 1967 law that forbade discrimination in the hiring and firing of people under 65 in private industry because of age, thus penalizing people over 65. Pepper has pushed through the House Education and Labor Committee a bill that would bar forced retirement in the private sector until age 70 and eliminate the mandatory retirement at that age that now applies...