Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs the most tax relief. The first big fight was over the 22% oil-depletion allowance, which permits the nation's oil companies to avoid some $2.5 billion in tax obligations. The allowance has been an emotionally charged symbol of tax loopholes that has often blocked serious tax reform...
University Hall, at the time, seemed to offer (along with the strife) a good deal of promise and initiative. Chief issues, aside from the pervasive demonstration issues, were merger and educational reform, and U-Hall was in the proper vanguard. Now, by contrast, students seem routinely treated as distant and foreign by an administration which seems more concerned with cost and efficiency than anything else...
...most extreme leftist members of Portugal's Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.), who are impatient with the pace of reform since the revolution of April 1974 and fretful that centrist or rightist elements might hold sway. Accordingly, they wanted an excuse to root out their foes on the eve of the scheduled April 12 elections for a constituent assembly...
...unsavory. The Women's Christian Temperance Union, for example, was not simply the haven of moralistic teetotalers, Frances Willard, its leader, and a pre-eminent feminist, deliberately feed she organization as a vehicle to draw women (especially in the south) into public activity under the umbrella of socially acceptable reform causes such as penal reform, labor legislation, the peace movement. Home economics at its inception was the vision of Ellen Richards, a scientist interested in creating new ways of employing women scientists. Her hopes lay in the broad field of "sanitary science" which covered everything from sewage disposal to consumer...
Dean Pipkin's Faculty Council subcommittee on calendar reform will examine the survey's findings before it reports to the council, Whitla said...