Word: reform
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...writer of the editorial states that the student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is a powerful tool for a reform of the unfair composition and procedures of the Committee. This is ridiculous. If the boycott is a powerful tool, why hasn't it had any effect in seven years of operation? The author's conclusion that a unified boycott is the "only weapon students have left" is obviously erroneous...
...casually dropped a bombshell: chatting with employees of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he outlined a plan to cut taxes for everyone earning less than $16,000 a year, raise them for everybody making more. That would be part of his long-term program for tax reform; the President has started discussing specifics before his aides have even settled on generalities...
...under Carter's plan, a family of four earning $10,000 a year would save $388 in taxes; the same family earning $25,000 would pay $100 more than it does now. What Congress may think will not be known for a long time: Carter's tax-reform proposals will not be presented to it until the end of the year...
...Report is a crucial issue for Dukakis. Massachusetts desperately needs court reform. Passage of its recommendations would mark a major accomplishment for a management-oriented governor seeking re-election. Sisitsky, as Judiciary chairman, is one of the key figures on this bill. He is intensely ambitious and would no doubt like to be governor some day. But even if he were firmly convinced of its faults, Sisitsky would find it difficult to battle a popular governor over a reform issue. The scandal-ridden legislature cannot afford a bitter fight: the House will be obsessed wtih bickering over redistricting, and Dukakis...
Dukakis has compensated for the loss of liberal support by building on middle class issues: balanced budgets, reform and reorganization, and stimulating business. By resisting the demands of the state employees' union last summer, he won the favor and votes of those who instinctively think public employees are overpaid and underworked. Dukakis came into office at a time when it was chic to spend but necessary to slash--and he has emerged from this trying period with a rejuvenated career...