Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student committee worked tirelessly last spring to draft the CRR reform proposals that were overwhelmingly approved in a College-wide referendum last May. The Faculty has yet to agree to hear those proposals, however, and the student committee has requested that the CRR boycott continue at least until those proposals are considered. If the student boycott ends now, the Faculty will lose any incentive it might have had to work to change...
Ending the boycott at this time would accomplish nothing. The CRR cannot be reformed from the inside through student participation. Only the Faculty can make the necessary changes in the CRR's charter and composition, and it is only through the continued pressure of the student boycott that the Faculty will be moved to reform or abolish...
...implies that only women can treat other women with respect and undegrading love, and that men can neither sympathize with women's mysterious control over reproduction nor understand their needs as human beings beyond those predicated on biological attributes. She suggests in passing that matriarchy would accomplish only cosmetic reform of patriarchy, but in a footnote she terms unacceptable the other commonly discussed alternative, androgeny. The only hope, she remarks offhandedly, is post-androgeny--and what that is or how it differs from androgeny remains a gussing game for the reader...
...land reform, López Portillo is unlikely to reverse expropriations already carried out. But he will move slowly on new ones. "The land is not made of rubber," he has told advisers. "It is not elastic." There will simply not be enough arable soil for everyone. Larger, more efficient holdings, however, may increase, since they are prime earners of U.S. dollars...
Echeverria's Under Secretary for Natural Resources and as reform administrator of the chaotic Federal Electricity Commission before receiving the Finance Minister's portfolio in 1973. Though he took responsibility two years ago for pushing through Echeverria's modest tax increase on high incomes, López Portillo gained the respect of Mexican businessmen. Most of them, after six years of polemics with Echeverria, look forward to Don Pepe's presidency with relief...