Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kopple began to make her film about the Miners for Democracy, the UMWA reform factiion that sprang up after the murder of Jock Yablonski in 1969. Instead, she found herself focusing on Harlan County and the test fight the union was waging there against Duke Power. She moved among the miners, lived with them, eventually got herself beaten up with them. But all the time her camera was rolling, and Kopple has captured incredible scenes on film. Here is Basil...
...mark the coming of the new season, the town clock in Cohasset, Mass., was dismantled and given its first cleaning in 111 years. In rural Andover, Conn.. a daring reform was suggested to permit secret balloting instead of voting by the traditional showing of hands at town meetings. The old practice was retained-on a vote taken, just this once, by secret ballot...
...Lane Kirkland- who in a blistering address the day before charged Carter with failing to keep his promises to the "working people"-has said labor would be willing to support the Administration's tax-reduction proposals in return for the President's backing of a comprehensive labor-reform law. "How should we respond in public to Kirkland's remarks?" Granum asks...
...clinic's three attorneys and three paralegals can devote personal attention to individual problems that overburdened legal-aid attorneys and probation officers do not have time for. Since most of its clients are involved in juvenile court, the legal goal often boils down to finding an alternative to reform school, and persuading the judge to go along with it. One recent example: a boy of twelve, caught mugging an elderly man, was placed successfully at a part-time job in an old folks' home instead of being sent to a correctional camp. Says Brill: "We want to demonstrate...
...Commitment to a program to spur business investment. It would include an attempt to reduce uncertainties about future Government regulations-for instance, pollution-control standards -that are delaying capital projects, as well as renewed pledges that the Administration's tax reform proposals next fall will contain investment incentives...