Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phone and immediately get through to people like the influential Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill (D.-Mass.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) to explain the impact of a manpower bill on medical schools or the effect of sex-blind admissions, affirmative action, or tax-reform legislation on university structures...
Indeed it has. For all practical purposes, Bayh is close to insolvency. For that he can blame the finance law-and himself. He badly miscalculated the impact of the legislation, particularly the $1,000 limit, though he had supported the reform. Not until December did he hold his first formal fund raiser, long after the other candidates had started collecting money...
...fight to Ford. Among them is Senator Edward Kennedy, who says "I'm ready now" to fight for a comprehensive health insurance plan, long one of his major concerns. Kennedy also finds his colleagues eager to push for legislation dealing with the cities, the economy, energy and tax reform...
Revel is a disillusioned Socialist who was once a Programme Commun candidate for the National Assembly. He defines his ideal of socialism broadly-"any evolution, reform or revolution" that tends to make an economy "function to the benefit of a larger number of men and [put it] a little more under their control." Such true socialism as exists in the world today, he argues, can survive only along with social justice and political democracy-that is, in the liberal democracies of the West. The two principal obstacles to socialism are Communism and nationalism, he contends. The combination...
...known leftists, Portugal's army, which last summer was an almost unmanageable stronghold of revolutionary ardor, has been transformed into a relatively disciplined force loyal to Pinheiro de Azevedo's government. Efforts to nationalize many of Portugal's industries and to carry out a sweeping land-reform program have virtually stopped. There have been almost nightly bombings of local Communist and leftist headquarters in northern Portugal. Conservative farmers in the north who have joined in the new Confederation of Farmers plan to make their angry voices heard in elections for the legislature scheduled for next April...