Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serenity of the temple was bankrupt as a political strategy. As he remarked retrospectively in 1965, "The Black Muslim movement took no part in things political, civic--it didn't take too much part in anything other than stopping people from doing this drinking, smoking, and so on. Moral reform it had, but beyond that it did nothing...
REUBIN ASKEW, 46. First elected Governor of Florida on a tax reform theme in 1970, the former state legislator delivered on his promises and won a smashing re-election last year to be come the state's first successive two-term Governor. The feat was particularly remarkable because he favored busing. A native of Oklahoma who neither smokes nor drinks, Askew is a Southern liberal who has raised corporate taxes, repealed var ious consumer levies and pushed hard to help the elderly and protect Florida's endangered environment. Soft-spoken and handsome, he was an effective keynote speaker...
...criticized venture, she raised the price of school lunches and cut off the free milk rations for some 3.5 million children, earning for herself the bitter playground chant, "Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher." The $20.7 million per year that she thus saved was used to help finance an ambitious educational-reform program...
...general who led the 1968 coup that ousted President Fernando Belaunde Terry, Velasco has accomplished much during his six years in power-notably his land and education reform programs-but he has never been particularly popular. Moreover, he has grown increasingly intolerant of criticism and disposed to rule by fiat. In theory the junta does not interfere with political parties, but repression against them has grown during the past year. Some enemies of the regime have been harassed into exile; others, like former President Belaunde, have been forbidden to return. Last July Velasco expropriated all newspapers with a national circulation...
Levison sees revolutionary possibilities in American workers--he does not fall into a moronic "classless society" argument. For Levison, workers are a progressive force in the present, capable of fighting for redistributive taxation, a full employment economy, national health reform, representation in the workplace and workers' control. All of these issues are part of working-class self-interest, and Levison sees the potential to go beyond this advanced welfare-state liberalism...