Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidency was that he had no solid power base to count on. He won by putting together a remarkable but shaky coalition-liberals, conservatives, old-line Democrats, blacks, Southern rednecks, Northern hardhats. He seemed to promise something to everyone, and stressed themes that cut across ideological barriers: welfare reform, Government reorganization and, even more fundamentally, trust ("I'll never...
This is not to say that dealing with human rights in our foreign involvements will or should be simple, or that the Carter administration should be expected to reform a tradition of amoral pragmatism overnight. Foreign policy, which deals with so many conflicting commitments and considerations, can never be formulated successfully according to hard and fast moral doctrines. Rather, it is to be hoped that the Carter administration will continue to press the issue of human rights in principle, deal with each case on its own merits, and strive to make public the elements involved in each case so that...
...Common Cause Founder John Gardner, who is retiring as chairman in April. Incumbents have been reluctant to approve such a kitty: Why help challengers? But Congress is about to collect a pay raise and is caught up in an influence-buying scandal with South Korean lobbyists. So pressures to reform Capitol Hill's own campaign financing may prove too strong to resist. Besides, big money does not always guarantee success. Of the top five recipients of private money among Senate candidates, three were defeated -Hartke, Tunney and Green...
That is a little like describing Tolstoy as the Russian exponent of land reform...
Lastly, it should not be supposed beforehand that any effort to reform the CRR is doomed to failure. It certainly can't be any more ineffective than the seven futile years of boycott. If I was before the CRR, I would certainly want at least some student on the Committee. And, if worst came to worst, the students could resign, leaving us no worse off than before...