Word: reform
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Sunshine Law. As a budget-slashing, reform-minded Governor, he consolidated some 300 state agencies into a more manageable 22, creating a mammoth department of human resources that handles everything from food-stamp certification and mental health to vocational rehabilitation and disability insurance. He intends to bring such cost-cutting measures to the Federal Government if he reaches the White House in 1977. As Georgia's Governor, he oversaw the passage of a "sunshine law," which permits more public access to legislative committees and executive agencies, another reform he hopes to bring to Washington...
...Incarceration" is a favorite word among gun lovers, particularly those with impatience for "soft" modern penal reform and a fondness for mandatory sentencing of criminals who break current gun laws...
...Means Committee and its once indomitable chairman, Wilbur Mills. Earlier this year the House had voted to force Mills to subdivide his committee into four subcommittees with separate chairmen and thus dilute his authority. Angered at his unwillingness to act on such legislation as national health insurance and tax reform, the liberals now aimed to relieve Mills of all but his chairman's gavel...
...threatened Mills' re-election chances in the first contest to offer a Republican challenge to his seat since he initially won it 36 years ago. Nonetheless, Mills gained re-election in November by a comfortable majority. Though his powers as chairman were due to be curbed by a reform-minded Democratic caucus in any case, it looked as if he could keep his chair if he was willing to fight for it. Then came his fatal foray into Boston, a trip that Mills undertook, he later told newsmen, to dispel rumors that he had been having an affair with...
...Minister Takeo Fukuda, 69. Although he had previously been a candidate for the premiership, Miki (see box following page) could count on the backing of only a minor bloc within the party. Moreover, he had the reputation of being too idealistic and outspoken in his advocacy of internal party reform to be altogether acceptable to many of his party colleagues...