Word: reform
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...woman among writers or a writer among women. Her first novels, such as Indiana, not surprisingly, attacked marriage, declaring it unfulfilling, demeaning and emotionally deadening for both women and men. Her non-fiction, which Barry quotes from at length, made feminist demands: rigorous intellectual education for women, reform of the divorce laws, repeal of statutes giving husbands full authority over their wives' lives and property. Barry points out that many of the changes Sand demanded were not effected until 1970. Even now, he adds, political and legal equality have not yet brought "that equality to life, in marriage...
...list of leftouts continues. Professor James Q. Wilson's recent book Thinking About Crime, slashed through the blizzard of liberal sentiments about reform and re-education to outline a daring, new position in favor of jail cells and bread rations. Captain Lock-em-Up, who admittedly does not stand alone among Harvard government professors, will speak in a panel discussion at the Harvard Law Forum, to be held on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. at Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School. Wilson's co-panelists will be Joseph Jordan, your average Boston Police Commissioner, and George V. Higgins...
...June. In a three-way campaign that is already getting heated, Miller is running for re-election against Union Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick and U.M.W. International Board Member Lee Roy Patterson. Patrick, 46, a voluble, fiery fourth-generation miner from Monongah, W. Va., ran with Miller on the reform ticket in 1972 and represents the progressive wing of the union. Though he came to office without bookkeeping experience or a high school education, he is credited with putting the U.M.W.'s ledgers in order after years of abuse under Boyle. Patterson, 43, is a graying, stocky union in-fighter...
Freed from the necessity of wooing voters or answering opponents, Mrs. Gandhi was able to sidestep her socialistic promises of welfare programs and land reform. To contain inflation, the government in effect banned strikes and required employers to withhold and deposit in banks money awarded to workers in wage increases. Production quotas on private industry were lifted. (Businesses had not been allowed to produce as much as they could, out of socialistic concern that their owners might get too rich.) The dominant state-owned sector of industry, which deals in such key goods as steel, coal and iron...
...past, complaints were handled more informally by a Massachusetts Bar Association committee, Allan D. Rodgers, chairman of the new review committee and director of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, said yesterday...