Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plundering pols have outlasted the goo-goos but the finance commission remains, with politicians claiming it is an anachronism and reform-minded observers calling it the city's only autonomous, institutional safeguard. Boston Mayor Kevin H. White abetted by the Boston City Council, is conducting a subtle campaign to vitiate the finance commission by slashing its budget under the guise of an austerity move. The finance commission, consisting of four volunteers and Chairman Andrea Wasserman Garguilo, whose salary is $5000 a year (the same salary the first chairman received in 1909), has a $121,000 budget to oversee...
Throughout his presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter pledged he would reform the antiquated and anarchic welfare system run by the Federal Government. At his first Cabinet meeting, Carter ordered HEW Secretary Joseph Califano to get cracking on a solution. Califano quickly assembled a 32-member committee-composed of Administration, congressional, state and private experts-and set out to produce a plan by May 1. Last week, unable to get agreement on a single concept, Califano gave Carter four different approaches to the problem that were long on principle and short on detail. The President hopes to be able to choose...
Although the committees would only serve as study groups and final vote on the core proposal would not come until next fall, Wilson said Faculty members working together in small groups is the sole way to achieve serious academic reform...
Until the administration is sure the Faculty favors some sort of reform, it will probably continue to present the Faculty with a moving target that is impossible to shoot down with an all-or-nothing vote...
...Voting Rights Act of 1965, initiated and passed the first major revision of antitrust laws in more than 25 years, and conducted two unprecedented constitutional inquiries under the 25th Amendment. We are now and have since 1973 been closely examining the very issue raised in your article-criminal code reform...