Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studied Buddhism, Hinduism and Christian theology and regarded himself as a mystic. Shortly before his death, in fact, Jumblatt had been planning a trip to a monastery in the Himalayas for "spiritual exercises." He had last gone there -for the same purpose-before beginning the final fruitless struggle to reform his country...
...several Democrats were none too sure that the rebates would do much good. But after Schultze repeated the Administration's arguments that the economy still needs a quick boost, and that permanent tax cuts would interfere with Carter's aims of drafting a long-range tax reform and balancing the budget by 1980, the Democrats closed ranks. On the Senate floor, a few Democrats are likely to join all 38 Republicans in voting against the rebate, but it probably will still pass. Said Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, voicing the majority mood: "I'm skeptical. But this...
SICK PAY. In a surprise move, the committee voted to let workers during 1976 continue to escape taxes on as much as $100 a week of the pay they earned while off the job because of injury or illness. The Tax Reform Act passed last October had made such earnings fully taxable; it also greatly increased taxes on Americans working abroad-and made both provisions retroactive on income earned earlier in the year. The Finance Committee voted to make those provisions apply only to income earned in 1977 and later years. "Retroactivity is against the spirit of the American Constitution...
Hale Champion has made the big time. He eats lunch most afternoons with Joseph A. Califano Jr., the Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare. Congressional committees anxiously await his testimony on welfare reform. When he emerged from a Senate Finance committee hearing on his confirmation as the Undersecretary of HEW last Wednesday morning, half a dozen reporters pounced on him in the corridor to ask questions about his testimony...
...great irony of the freshman debates over the CRR boycott is that all members of the Freshman nominating panel were agreed in their desire to see the CRR changed. In their blind faith in the possibilities of "reform from within," the freshmen overestimated the Faculty's supposed good will, and probably will be frustrated in their attempts to effect any change at all--meaningful...