Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These questions are important, for they form the center of the great calendar-reform controversy. No one wants to go home for Christmas, only to face another month of courses, review, and then, finally, examinations when he returns to school. It's so wonderful to make the long-awaited sojurn home in December, to see family and friends, and to hear "oh, weren't finals so rough? Christ I'm glad they're over with. I worked my ass off studying those last couple of weeks." Comments like these do much to enliven an otherwise dull vacation, and the possibilities...
...take Congress for granted, Speaker O'Neill warned that "common sense and the Constitution demand that Pennsylvania Avenue remain a two-way street." Liberal Democrats are already restive over Carter's apparent intention to place budget-balancing goals above the need for such programs as welfare reform and national health insurance. Many Democrats, too, favor a larger jobs program than they expect Carter to recommend. Neither do Republicans expect to sit idly by while Carter and congressional Democratic leaders work out a legislative agenda. Said Rhodes: "I promise you that when we are in opposition...
...power base-whose politics seem pragmatic and even downright antiCommunist. In a lightly veiled reference to Sanjay's following, the C.P.I, attacked what it called a "reactionary caucus" within the Congress. The C.P.I. backed Mrs. Gandhi's 20-point emergency program for social and economic reform, but pointedly withheld support from Sanjay's five-point youth program, which calls for increased family planning, more tree planting, better sanitation, higher literacy and the abolition of dowries...
...various times the Greeks have tried to lift at least part of the burden. In the 1950s the government launched a privately subscribed fund drive to provide dowries for poor girls. Although the latest reform attempt is more sweeping than any other, it is still unlikely to drive dowries out of Greek life in anything but the formal sense. Says Professor Andrew Gazis, chairman of the government committee drafting the antidowry bill: "Customs are deep within our country's soul. There will be no way to stop a father from offering a daughter a gift when she marries...
...those persons who have suffered from the real affirmative discrimination, both past and present, in American society. And we know that the mere enactment of Congressional legislation, or the issuance of a Presidential Executive Order is not enough. An Act, in and of itself, is not the essence of reform. Laws and Orders are not yet self-executing...