Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe the Republican Party now has a historic opportunity to establish itself as the party of idealism and reform. The populist Republican movements following previous national scandals and in the early part of this century provided the leadership, and more important the example, for subsequent national reforms...
...campaign for Congress based on pledges and actual practices of reform. We Republicans must shed our big-business image and become the party of the common man. We can do this in part by ceasing to use "specialinterest" money in our campaigns. My campaign did not accept one penny of special-interest money. I believe the great lobbies' power in Washington could be broken up if special-interest money were ruled out of political campaigns...
...addition to congressional reform, election reform and judicial reform are pressing issues that we Republicans should adopt as a national policy position. I found the voters responsive to these issues in my recent campaign for Congress...
...prison. The murders sent shock waves of indignation across the coal fields. Shortly afterward, Miller, who had risen to prominence in West Virginia as president of the insurgent Black Lung Association, was chosen at a meeting of anti-Boyle factions to succeed Yablonski and lead the reform movement...
...Token Reform. Did the change happen? Not at all, according to a comprehensive survey being released this week by Boston University's Center for Criminal Justice. The five-volume report, product of an 18-month study of nine sample cities, concludes: "Compliance has generally been token in nature," reform "has been chaotic and uneven at best," and the assurance of legal representation remains "an empty right for many defendants...