Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic-stimulus package was in place, and unemployed Americans were going back to work. By winter, continued Mondale, most of the energy program would be law. The Administration had won authority to reorganize the Government, and planning was under way. Budget reform was progressing, he said, and there would be welfare and tax-reform schemes soon. Important, too, Mondale reminded his listeners, was a change in attitude in Washington. Overseas, there was a policy of activism, changes of attitude and a reinvigoration of American ideals. Many would quarrel with the latter assessment, but that was the way Mondale...
...remained personally close to the Chairman until the early 1960s, Teng disagreed with Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, which marked a disastrous setback for China, particularly in agriculture. In the Leap's aftermath, Teng, who was then general secretary of the Party, introduced a gradualist agricultural reform program designed to undo the damage. In a 1962 speech that was to haunt him later, Teng declared that ideology came second to results: "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production, any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether...
Despite outward signs of a growing rift between labor and the Administration, the reform package had been under negotiation for about three months between Meany and Carter aides. To get Carter's support, labor agreed to put aside temporarily its campaign to repeal...
...gain popular acceptance for their bills, the unions are planning a lengthy. $800,000 promotional blitz featuring newspaper ads, talk-show appearances and a massive direct-mail campaign. White House aides even solicited views of business leaders to find ways to soften opposition to labor-law reform and an increased minimum wage. Still, employers generally remain hostile to both measures. A coalition of business lobbyists, backed by a war chest of more than $1 million," is planning what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce describes as "a long and bitter battle" against the labor-reform proposals. Thus the stage...
...Graham, Christian conversion involves two "vital elements," repentance and faith. Repentance, which is "absolutely necessary," is not a commitment to self-reform or an acknowledgment of the general evil in society. It is rather a very personal "recognition of what we are before God-sinners who fall short of His glory." This is followed by "genuine sorrow for sin" and "willingness to turn from...