Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said they had contacts with the Arabs as of March 31, and most reported they would comply with the boycott. To avoid antagonizing the Arabs or angering the U.S. businessmen involved, the Administration has been notably reluctant to combat the boycott. Ford boasted in the debate that the tax reform bill he signed recently includes tax penalties for firms that observe the boycott, but he did not mention that the Administration had tried to persuade Congress to drop that provision from the bill. The day after the debate Ford went back on the promise to release the list and lamely...
...Education Paul Parks, a black, left his post as director of the Model Cities Program in the White administration, he was O'Neil's favorite target. Throughout 1973, Dapper threatened that he would have Parks indicted for stealing $23 million, but no case ever materialized. After Parks left, reform-minded Police Commissioner Robert diGrazia--"The fuckin' Messiah," Dapper says--became his target. O'Neil maintains that diGrazia and his corps of civilian advisors are part of a domestic CIA conspiracy organized through the National Police Foundation. As evidence, he points to diGrazia's friendship with MBTA Director Robert Kiley...
...Anderson letter, publicized for the first time this week, has already resulted in a counter-attack by Vigier, and promises to fuel the upcoming discussion of reform in the grievance process and the discussion of the larger question of the role of faculty members in the investigations of cases involving their co-workers...
...regime could face problems within its own constituency. White business, deep in recession, depends heavily on black labor (90% of total employment in both agriculture and mining, 68% in service industries). But because of the slump, black unemployment is approaching 2 million. Even the Afrikaans press is calling for reform, attacking the tough pass laws (requiring every black over 16 to carry a passbook at all times) as "unjust humiliation." In the meantime, however, South Africans have taken out more than 200,000 new firearms licenses in the past year, bringing the total to nearly 1.2 million...
...century, the Mediterranean basin was torn by a dispute about the necessity for divine grace in man's salvation. The bishops of North Africa, led by St. Augustine, insisted that human beings could do nothing without divine help. Pelagius, a theologian from foggy Britain come south to preach reform in Rome, believed that man is born spiritually free. God's grace may give him a push, but essentially he can find his own way to heaven. Augustine's writings were crucial in labeling Pelagius a heretic. Still, the bishops needed some temporal muscle to run the heretics...