Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half of his life in the House. Though he is highly respected. Boiling's haughty intellectual manner sometimes ruffles colleagues. A ranking member of the Rules Committee, Boiling is a keen parliamentarian who has written two books critical of the House. If elected. Boiling would push for congressional reform and a liberal approach on domestic matters...
...matter how Carter decides on taxes, however, he made it clear to Democrats and Republicans alike that he would not push immediately for budget-bending programs like national health insurance, welfare reform or a large-scale effort to create more jobs. Liberal Democrats were put off by this. "We ought to be able to do better than that," said Tip O'Neill, the next Speaker of the House, of Carter's unemployment goals. But O'Neill was already sounding like a man who knew he would have to defend Carter against the criticism of impatient liberals. Said...
...reason for Wilson's quick decision to urge the separation--his report came out only last month--may lie more in the history of core curriculum reform than in the specific nature of the foreign language battle...
This points out two major faults with the local campaign reform legislation enacted in the wake of the 1972 campaign and the Watergate hearings. The new Massachusetts laws banned corporate contributions to candidates, and limited all individual contributions--to candidates and referendum committees--to $1000 each. It clearly did not ban or even limit business contributions to political committees for or against ballot questions that would affect their business. The effect of this has been all too dramatic. Most of the contributors to committees in favor of the bottle bill, for example, were individuals who, even if they could afford...
...editorial speaks of filling the gap between "the sectarian legacy of the socialist left, and the timidity and incapacity of the social reform tradition." Weinstein seems to think the issue of corporate capitalism, ignored by the Democrats and Republicans, can give rise to a new party, just as the issue of slavery, ignored by the pre-Civil War Whigs and Democrats, gave birth to the Republican Party...