Word: reform
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Such an attitude apparently has not endeared him to the conservative medical faculty, whose concerns are more academic. The two major efforts at reform that were initiated under Ebert within the school--a revision of the curriculum in which control was taken away from the basic scientists, and a conversion to pass/fail grading--were both reversed by later votes of the faculty...
Members of the Cambridge Convention '75, a coalition of liberal reform groups, seeking support for the November 4 elections, asked students at a meeting held last night at Phillips Brooks House to register to vote and to back the Convention's platform...
...then, however, she had already established a connection with the Hearst family. While at PIN, she had struck up a friendship with Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, the black ex-convict who had formed the United Prisoners Union, dedicated to advancing prison reform. (He was gunned down in San Francisco on June 8 by unknown assassins.) Popeye, hinting at contacts with the S.L.A., approached Randolph Hearst with an offer to intercede for Patty's release. Sensing an opportunity, Moore managed to become the go-between in the dealings. It was a role that caught the attention of FBI agents, who thought...
...study groups that regularly meet to debate the application of Communist theories to American society. There also are several radical communes, among them the Revolutionary Union and the October League, that seek to organize leftist groups within labor unions. Still other Bay Area activists work in behalf of prison reform, improved veterans' benefits, black rights and increased help for the poor; indeed, new groups and new causes spring up as fast as a poster can be pasted to a utility pole...
Master Stroke. The biggest reform, and one that a senior company source confides is likely to be adopted within six months, would be a plan to give Rank shareholders equal voting rights. Long before his death in 1972, Company Founder J. Arthur Rank set up an involved scheme under which the Rank Foundation, though it holds only 9.44% of the stock, casts 53% of the votes. His intention was to prevent a takeover...