Word: reform
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...power." But with a snort, a wave and a chuckle, Boren goes on his rounds through the changing city. He even has some tax advice for Carter. Noting that as more bureaucrats come into existence, there are fewer and fewer taxpayers to support them, INATAPROBU has proposed worldwide tax reform that would give tax incentives to the decreasing number of taxpayers to encourage them to work harder to support the increasing number of those who do not work...
...Franco's death, the rubber-stamp parliament in Madrid moved Spain along the road to democracy in a curious way-by voting itself out of existence. After three days of sometimes emotional debate, the Cortes overwhelmingly approved (425 to 59, with 13 abstentions) the government's political reform bill (TIME, Nov. 1), thereby promising Spain a Western-style democracy for the first time in 40 years. Under the provisions of the law, a bicameral legislature (a 350-member elected congress of deputies and a 207-member senate) will replace the present Cortes, in which less than one-fifth...
Miguel Primo de Rivera, nephew of the founder of the blue-shirted Falange and a man with good Franquista credentials, made the initial defense of the political reform bill in the Cortes. "We are conscious of the fact," said Primo de Rivera, "that we must move from a personal regime to one of participation, without a break and without violence ... We must begin the future with optimism, without rancor for the past and without forgetting that we have an obligation to the present and the future...
While Suárez listened impassively on the blue leather government bench, Blas Piñar, head of an ultra-right group calling itself Fuerza Nueva (New Force) attacked the reform as a "stupid mask." Another right-wing coalition, the Popular Alliance, threatened that its more than 100 members would abstain from voting unless majority representation replaces the government's proposal that seats in the lower house be allotted by proportional representation. In the end, Alliance leaders and other conservatives were satisfied by a modest technical compromise on voting procedures...
Austerity Measures. Suárez's clever stage-managing of the reform bill was fresh evidence that his government is navigating with some confidence down the political middle. Shortly before the Cortes vote, the left made itself felt when Spain's illegal but officially tolerated trade-union blocs staged what they described as a one-day general strike to protest government austerity measures. But the most remarkable thing about the only partially successful strike was its restraint-clear evidence that even labor's leftists hoped that the reform bill would pass...