Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, with pressure for reform growing in Congress, the Ford Administration proposed sweeping changes. By eliminating food stamps for 3.4 million people and drastically reducing benefits for another 5.3 million, the Administration would cut the $6 billion program by $1.2 billion a year. The key proposals...
...that both the United Nations in 1945 and the Common Market later refused to let Spain join. A desire by the U.S. for air and submarine bases led to a military pact in 1953 that boosted Spain's standing in the international community. It did little, however, to reform Franco's cruel and backward rule...
When America's liberal Reform Jews last revised their prayer book in 1940, the Nazi Holocaust had barely begun and the nation of Israel was only a dream-a dream opposed by many Reform Jews at that. Both realities are vigorously acknowledged. in the 799-page Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayerbook, described as the first wholesale revision of Reform liturgy in 80 years (the 1940 version made only modest changes). One new service, "In Remembrance of Jewish Suffering," calls on the rabbi to say: "Exile and oppression, expulsion and ghettos, pogroms and death camps: the agony...
...Dahl report, a 117-page book filled with 60 recommendations about undergraduate education, was in the midst of being tabled by the Yale faculty. What happened between the christening and the collapse serves as a warning for others on the inherent dangers of giving committees broad mandates for educational reform. The failure of the Dahl report also points out the inherent logistics and timing problems in enterprises of this nature...
...biggest drawbacks to educational reform, the committee members assert, were the faculty's reluctance to change and its growing awareness that the school would not have the funds to carry out the major recommendations of the report. Worse, with the debate over the report's appendix came the understanding that not only could things not change for the better but that the status quo would have to be cut back and the number of faculty reduced. "The fact that Dahl didn't have the price tag for his recommendation injured us," Hoskins says. "They told us originally that we shouldn...