Word: reform
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...student committee to reform the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities Tuesday night approved a series of draft proposals to change the CRR's charter and procedures, and is planning an undergraduate referendum on the proposals later this month...
...against the evils of "big government," lecturing on the cost of maintaining the growing federal bureaucracy. Consistently critical of deficit spending policies of the federal government, the governor has been a strong advocate of balanced budgets. He laments the plight of the working people of America, calling for tax reform to reduce the burden on the average citizen...
...adds: "I have never in my life said a prayer asking God to let me succeed . . . but I do ask God to help me do the right thing"); and a news conference. Carter told the reporters that he could not give full details of his proposal to reform taxes by eliminating most deductions and taxing "all income the same" until after he was in the White House. Later, as Carter settled into his car, Press Secretary Jody Powell thrust his head through the window. Said he: "I think you made a mistake. In the past, you've said...
These periods of rest may be necessary, yet the feeling usually arises that urgent business is being left unattended, that an idle nation (idle in the sense of ignoring self-improvement and reform) does the devil's work. Indeed, during both the Hoover and Eisenhower presidencies, these pauses were accompanied by ambitious attempts to focus on great and worthy national goals...
...deal with a new ingredient in the Middle East morass: a Lebanon that is not the Lebanon of old. It seemed certain last week that the Moslem leftists were on the verge of forcing the country to abandon the old sectarian political system, either by accepting reform or by facing the muzzles of 25,000 AK-47s. As King Hussein observed in Washington, it is no longer "a question of changing a President in Lebanon, but of changing a regime and its shape...