Word: reform
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...budget in 1981 in the context of a fully employed economy. I can live with that. We are just putting together the budget for the next four years. In order to make some of the tough choices that have to be made if we are going to achieve welfare reform or tax reform or reorganization of Government, I think the President has to establish some pretty rigid rules. He is trying to force these agencies-and I enthusiastically support that-to start from the first dollar up and see what they can do better with the money we have...
...President's performance in shaping economic policy, and during his hectic four months in office Carter's line has changed significantly. He has, for example, abandoned his plan for $50-per-person tax rebates, given balancing the budget by 1981 priority over starting welfare-reform or national-health plans, and stressed containing inflation as much as creating new jobs...
...known as Cliometricians argue that truth can best be found in computer analyses of population movements, interest rates and other social data. Still others explain old riddles by invoking the theories of sociology and psychoanalysis. New voices insist that it should serve the purposes of racial justice or economic reform. In contrast to all these divisions, Braudel offers historians a new kind of synthesis. Oxford Historian H.R. Trevor-Roper has written of the Braudelian method that it "is a kind of history which crosses all frontiers and uses all techniques. The achievement is to have drawn geography, sociology, law, ideas...
City Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55, a supporter of the police commissioner proposal said, "I regard the appointment of a police commissioner as the best way to strengthen the police force. The reform of the police department is more than a six month job. It is a several year job, and it's more than one person can do," adding that he had supported the concept of police commissioner before Davenport was appointed...
...Chancellor and architect of West Germany's economic miracle after World War II; of heart disease; in Bonn. A German economist without a Nazi past, Erhard was selected by U.S. Occupation officials to help restore Germany's war-ruined economy. A laissez-faire economist, he initiated currency reform, then abolished price controls and rationing. His rationale: "Turn the people and the money loose, and they will make the country strong." It worked. West Germany became Europe's most prosperous power. A strong supporter of the Common Market and European integration, Erhard succeeded Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor...