Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd waiting for the vote roared its approval and set off celebratory firecrackers. As the parliamentarians stood to sing the national anthem, a Creole woman placed garlands of ribbons around the neck of Prime Minister Henck Arron and Opposition Leader Jaggernath Lachmon, head of the Hindustani Vatan Hitkarie (Progressive Reform) party. Close to tears, the two longtime political opponents embraced...
Died. Dr. Detlev Bronk, 78, former president of both Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller Universities and founding father of American biophysics; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. An advocate of curriculum reform, in the early 1950s Bronk inaugurated the Hopkins Plan, under which qualified undergraduates were allowed to take courses at the university's graduate school. He transformed the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research into a university by adding a graduate program that gave no grades and conferred only doctorates. He staffed it with a brilliant faculty that outnumbered the student body by 2 to 1 when he retired...
Reagan's most notable success was a 70-point welfare reform program adopted in 1971. Among other things, eligibility rules were tightened, benefits for people with jobs were reduced, and fraud was prosecuted more vigorously. In addition, able-bodied recipients were required to take job training courses or work without pay at least four hours a day for their communities-cleaning up parks, directing traffic near schools and the like. To make the reforms more palatable to Democrats, Reagan agreed to increase benefits for those still on welfare by an average of 15%. In the first two years...
...more than a year, the Ford Administration has waged a crusader's war against "regulatory fiefdoms" in the Federal Government that, it claims, aggravate inflation by keeping prices artificially high and limiting competition. Last week, in line with this campaign, the Administration submitted to Congress a Motor Carrier Reform Act, which would largely remove interstate truck and bus transportation from federal regulation. This marked the third phase of a land-air offensive: earlier the Administration had proposed a Railroad Revitalization Act, which would lift the heavy hand of the Interstate Commerce Commission from railroads, and an Aviation...
...bill's repressive nature is understandable in light of its evolution. What started off as a determined attempt by President Johnson to reform the criminal codes has become the legacy of the law and order policies of the bill's author, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell...