Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khmer Rouge that in retrospect, were illusory. Because the Khmer Rouge had ties with the Republic of China, it was assumed that the Khmer Rouge's policies and social programs would have affinities with Maoism. It was assumed that while the NLF was working at grass roots campaigns to reform land use and to set up village councils, the Khmer Rouge was working on similar projects in their own country. But most important of all, it was assumed that because the Khmer Rouge fought against the forces of Lon Nol's regime and stood up against troops and brutal American...
...running as a unified slate, the reform candidates plan to take advantage of the proportional representation voting system, which requires to rank the candidates in order of preference. "People will see us as a slate throughout the campaign and thus will vote the slate on election day," convention-backed school committee member Alice Wolf said...
...Convention '75 has raised $6000 so far, and expects to come up with a total of $15,000 by election day. This money, which is over and above that amount individual candidates will spend on their own campaigns, will be spent on the voter registration effort and publicizing the reform issues the endorsed candidates are pledged to support...
Even more objectionable than the proposed wage reform was the industrial-relations expert who was selected to negotiate it−Fred Straw. Peach describes Straw as "a hatchet man," and even John Owen concedes that he was a rather aloof, overbearing man who gave the unions the false impression that "shock troops of management were coming in to sort things...
Whether the image of managerial shock troops was fantasy or not, it provoked a strike that cost the company almost $1.5 million. The piecework reform was dropped. Straw was transferred from Darlaston. The effort to centralize management control was abandoned for the more peaceful if ultimately unworkable status quo. Most important, the strike forcibly impressed the Owens with the limits of their power. Says David Owen: "We realized that paternalism was out, that the old gaffer-worker approach had become blurred. The old demarcations of upstairs/downstairs were out the window and well into the past. Coping with that change...