Word: reform
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...candidate of small businessmen, and later as an opponent of busing to achieve school integration. Kennedy's landslide victory nearly equalled that of his first election to a full term in 1964, and he should take that as a mandate to work for the health care and tax reform programs for which he has tirelessly worked in the past and which may finally see enactment under a Democratic Administration and Congress...
...letter, which is much more optimistic about the possibilities for educational reform than was the Yellow Letter, Rosovsky touches on problem areas discussed by the task forces since 1974 including General Education, curricular requirements, diversity of the student body and the contradiction of purposes between teaching and research...
Reiterating a theme he has addressed many times in the past two years, Dean Rosovsky states in his annual letter to the Faculty that education reform is needed at Harvard particularly in the non-concentration areas of the undergraduate curriculum...
BARBARA NEWELL, president, Wellesley College: My father was a college professor. He had dedicated 75 years of his life to social issues and reform and activism. The generation before him spent their lives in the same kind of thing. The issues of the world were served up at dinner. I did not have any sense of separatism. Actually, until I got out and did graduate work, I did not discover that it was not common for female economists to go out talking in public arenas about social change. Until that point it never occurred to me that my life...
Diane Kessler, a representative of the prograd tax alliance Massachusetts Coalition for Tax Reform, pointed out last Friday that in referenda voting, money talks. Her group raised $5,000, as opposed to the opposition's combined total of $140,000. One might assume that advertising against a tax bill cannot cause people to vote against a measure that would lower their taxes. But when one takes into account "the powerlessness, anger, frustration, and fear that people feel confronting any issue having to do with taxation, it's really not that surprising," Kessler said. "The opposition has played upon that fear...