Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter says he wants to reduce and reform the massive federal bureaucracy. If Carter is serious, he is in the wrong party. Democratic Congresses have worked tirelessly since 1933 to build the huge bureaucracy that Jimmy now opposes...
...basic reform of the common-law system-which regards married women as legal nonentities with virtually no property rights-is not likely to come from John Adams, however. He responded to his mutinous wife's "saucy" request with characteristic firmness: "As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh." The delegates, he added, "know better than to repeal our masculine systems" and would fight the "despotism of the petticoat...
...unable to cope with Italy's economic problems over the past few years. The rapid post-war industrialization of the country and the accompanying rise in the standard of living seem, in retrospect, to have peaked in 1969. Since then, the DC has been unwilling to advocate restriction and reform of government spending--a policy that would damage the interests of petty bureaucrats and multinational corporations. Nor has the party developed a coherent policy of "austerity," which might include, for example, taxes on luxury goods. In short, the DC has been incapable of presenting a concrete and effective platform...
...Washington's current obsession with sex, there is plainly nothing sublime. But there was a growing sense of the ridiculous last week: mistresses summoning a panting press to titillating tell-all sessions, reform committees and task forces sprouting like mushrooms after a heavy rain, Congressmen quaking at the prospect that yesterday's forgotten indiscretion could be tomorrow's memorable Page One headline...
Warning Signs. Outside Parliament, some South African leaders were even more emphatic. Said Alex Boraine, a Progressive-Reform M.P. and former president of the predominantly black Methodist Church of South Africa: "For years now the warning signs have been flashing for all to see. The tragedy is that they have been dismissed as the workings of a few agitators or political activists, or as rumblings that could easily be contained. I desire peace for South Africa, but there can be no peace without justice." Added Professor Erich Leistner, deputy director of Pretoria's Africa Institute, an African-affairs study...