Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ranges across the legislative scene, from calling for reform of lobbying to spearheading the successful drive for public financing of elections. He has become a gutty infighter. He challenged Russell Long, the influential head of the Senate Finance Committee, to cut down personal and corporate tax shelters and loopholes for the wealthy. He jumped on the Civil Aeronautics Board to lower air fares and lift restrictions against new carriers. His concentration on national health insurance has resulted in endless hearings on hospitals and drugs and preventive medicine, establishing him as the dominant force on the subject on Capitol Hill...
...Hartman dispute dates back to 1969 when the assistant professor of City 1969 when the assistant professor of city planning--then prominent in a reform with the students who occupied University Hall--learned he would neither be reappointed or promoted...
...Presented Congress with a proposal for "sweeping reform" of federal regulatory agencies, though the plan calls for nothing more than a study leading to specific proposals over a four-year period...
...furor stirred up by the most visible reform inspired by Vatican II - the modernizing of the rites of worship, most notably the Mass - seems to have largely died down. In the years following the council, the language of the liturgy became English, not Latin; baroque high altars gave way to simple tables; members of what had once jokingly been called "the church of silence" were urged to sing hymns - and often Protestant ones at that (a familiar favorite these days: Luther's A Mighty Fortress Is Our God). Instead of incense and plain chant, parish churches now offered folk...
Catholics are still adjusting to another reform, the "new" rite of penance, renamed the sacrament of reconciliation, which was put into effect in most U.S. parishes this past Lenten season. It is now a longer process often involving face-to-face easy-chair conversation between penitent and priest (TIME, March 15), although those who prefer it can retain the anonymity of the old screened confessional. Says Lee Roach, 41, a Delta Air Lines pilot and usher at St. Jude's parish in Sandy Springs, Ga.: "We're encouraged to examine our motives. Now, when you go to confession...