Word: reform
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Undergraduate tuition may become a tax shelter, since the Senate version of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 includes a credit for any taxpayers paying undergraduate tuition for themselves, spouses or dependents...
...Fashion," said Baudelaire, "is a sublime distortion of nature, or rather a constantly repeated attempt to reform nature." It also can be a means of understanding civilizations. The fortress of Victorian dress suggested much about the surrounding world's customs. So did the loose, low-cut flapper lines of the '20s, the Doris Day suburban look of the '50s and, in the '60s, the brash, youthful miniskirts, which gave way to pantsuits and jeans...
...grilled further that night by some of Reagan's close friends, including Justin Dart, the chief of Dart Industries, and Holmes Tuttle, a millionaire Ford dealer. They were satisfied. Tuttle rationalized: "A running mate does not have to be a Charlie McCarthy. Senator Schweiker voted for some social-reform bills that haven't worked, but he realizes now that they should be changed." Added Dart: "No one should think that the Governor is changing his basic posture. If anybody is changing, it is Senator Schweiker...
ROBERT RAY, 47, Governor of Iowa, whose approval rating in his fourth term is an astronomical 82%. Ray is more liberal than Ford, favors the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion-and opposes capital punishment. He helped bring about broad tax reform in Iowa, including repeal of levies on food and prescription drugs, while staving off any general tax increase. Major drawbacks: he would bring to the ticket only what fellow-Midwesterner Ford already gives it-honesty, simplicity-and blandness...
...their business, leads to moderation and reason in public debate, where violence and the extreme view are rejected, where rational argument can predominate. We need to have it understood that extreme ways of pursuing objectives degrade the spirit of our democratic institutions. We need it understood that progress and reform can be achieved through moderation, that democracy is strong when people deal rationally with each other, with compassion, without hatred...