Word: reform
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...city politicians--but he also took as few chances as possible in trying to allay the city's fears. White would seem to be an excellent target for Frank's brutally candid quips, but the representative has remained sympathetic to his former benefactor. Frank voted against White's charter reform package, an issue crucial to the mayor (and if you believed White, to the city too), but they still maintain their mutually beneficial relationship...
...move to change the commissioners at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination from a part- to a full-time basis, and Frank cast a crucial vote last year to sustain the administration's veto of the hospitals' certificate of needs bill. He enthusiastically supports the Cox Plan, Dukakis's court reform package, but claims the governor is doing little else to reform state administration...
...issues of top concern to him are Dukakis's work-fare plan and reform of the state's civil service. Dukakis wants to require able-bodied adults on welfare to work for the state in return for their welfare check. A complicated issue fraught with unforeseen expenses and effects, Frank approves of it philosophically but feels the specific proposal is too harsh on parents with younger children and will result in few tangible benefits. The combination of rigid civil service regulations and collective bargaining for public employees has made it impossible to discipline and fire state employees, Frank says, leaving...
Since Manuel F. Cohen left the post in 1969, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has had no fewer than five chairmen, a measure of the job's toughness during a time of reform in the securities industry. Last week President Carter designated still another boss as the nation's securities watchdog: Harold M. Williams, 49, the brilliant dean of U.C.L.A.'S Graduate School of Management and former chairman of Norton Simon Inc., the consumer-products conglomerate. After his expected confirmation by the Senate, Williams will replace Roderick M. Hills, chairman since 1975, who had told Carter...
This month a sweeping new version is expected to be introduced in Congress by Senator McClellan and a surprising new partner, Senator Edward M. Kennedy. McClellan, 81, the crusty dean of congressional crime fighters, badly wants a criminal-code reform bearing the McClellan name before his expected retirement next year, and the compromise package negotiated over six months by aides of the two Senators is a far cry from the old Sl. "It's a net gain for civil liberties," an enthusiastic Kennedy told a House judiciary subcommittee last week...