Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brain Trust. With the legislative machinery in more disciplined order, Democrats hope to pass a spate of bills that have been bottled up or ignored: mandatory wage-price controls, national health insurance, a major public works program to relieve unemployment, tax reform including a scaling down of the oil-depletion allowance, an export monitoring system that will more effectively prevent the sale abroad of commodities in short supply at home, and the revival of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, an agency created by President Herbert Hoover in 1932 to help business survive the Depression...
...full pardons to eight convicted war resisters, evidence that the passions of Viet Nam are finally burning out. There are no longer any American troops fighting and dying in that country, and the draft has been successfully abolished; the volunteer Army is in fact oversubscribed. Congress has begun to reform its creaky, outmoded machinery. Nelson Rockefeller is likely to be confirmed as Vice President, perhaps providing the Executive Branch with the domestic authority it has so far failed to exercise. Overseas, where shadows deepen, there are still a few glimpses of good. The limitation on offensive weapons agreed upon...
...political pollster said last night that the campaign reform laws passed this year will defeat many of their original purposes by giving incumbents and celebrities running for office a significant advantage over other challengers...
...been plagued by obscenity convictions. Perhaps his popularity, like that of so many other entertainers, would have dwindled, leaving him in obscurity. But Lenny was a fairly capable writer, and might have made a living even after the stage doors were closed to him, advocating penal and drug law reform. Whether it was the law that "killed" Lenny, as current books and articles claim, or his own inability to find a substitute for show business, his unfair conviction remains our responsibility, and something we deserve to feel ashamed about...
...October 1973, when Ralph Nader wanted to learn more about Internal Revenue Service investigations of "ideological, militant, subversive and radical organizations," his Tax Reform Research Group cited the Freedom of Information Act and asked to see 41 confidential IRS documents. Not a chance, said the revenue service. Nader's group responded with a suit, and the IRS reluctantly agreed to open its books. Last week Nader revealed that the service's intelligence gathering had been prompted by the Nixon White House. The 99 organizations investigated between 1969 and 1973 included...