Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promised that "there will be no new programs implemented under my Administration, unless we can be sure the cost is compatible with my goal of having a balanced budget before the end of the term." More specifically, he said: "If it requires a delay, for instance, in implementing welfare reform or health care [in order to balance the budget by 1981], then those delays will be there...
...Miller, who has a doctorate in social work, became head of Massachusetts' department of youth services and set out to reform the state's Dickensian juvenile prisons. Some 800 teenage inmates were locked in the concrete cottages of 10 institutions, where their keepers could have them kicked, beaten and put into solitary cells called "the tombs." Miller tried to turn these juvenile warehouses into "therapeutic communities" run by staffers who cared about rehabilitation...
...after 15 months of bureaucratic blockades, open warfare with state legislators, and sabotage by entrenched employees, Miller abandoned reform and elected revolution. By the time he was lured away to Illinois in 1973, he had closed down the Bay State's reformatories, scattering inmates among group and foster homes, shelters and day-care centers. Only 120 hard-core delinquents remained confined in the small, "secure" lockups. Said the Boston Globe of the Miller revolution: "He has left a legacy of humanity and hope where there had been regimentation and cruelty...
...success has kept well ahead of her. Googie's problem, mainly, is her accent, which is thick enough to weigh on a scale. In her lust for fame and fortune, Googie mistakes Gaetano for a big producer cruising the Ritz to have a little fun. She decides to reform him and become discovered in the process. He, on the other hand, seriously entertains the notion that...
...germane." Despite a pending federal antitrust suit against the A.B.A.'s strict limits on lawyer advertising, conventioneers were in no mood to go beyond the modest liberalizing of ad rules five months ago (TIME, March 1). When Jimmy Carter appeared to talk about the need to reform the appointment of regulatory-agency officials, A.B.A. members were caught somewhat unprepared: the organization has yet to adopt broad proposals in that critical area. Indeed the at-least-temporary halt in activism threatens to leave the bar in the position of having judges and other officials decide on changes that affect...