Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many doubt that the Democratic leadership can deliver on those promises. The 93rd Congress also had a large Democratic majority, but it failed to grapple effectively with inflation and recession. Tax reform, health insurance, the trade bill and many other measures have yet to get out of committee. Moreover, Democratic leaders historically have found it difficult to control unduly large majorities in Congress...
...Whether reform will come as a result of the visiting committee report remains in doubt. The Graduate Economics Club voted yesterday to begin a complete evaluation of the Economics Department Faculty and to organize a meeting between graduate students and Economics Faculty members. It also passed a proposal demanding that two graduate students sit on the formal committee making hiring and tenure decisions in the department...
...whether the Faculty can reform itself is unclear. And that, in a way, is the key to the whole issue...
...subject of prison reform, Owens cited the lack of rehabilitation programs as the major problem in the Massachusetts prison system. He said the "people who are guards in prisons could be better used as counselors." He also suggested that education systems be built around prisons to attract more government funding...
...deal with a black sit-in in his office, a police riot and a machine-dominated Housing Commission. When the police rampage through a peaceful black neighborhood, beating people and wrecking stores, Kramer refuses to mount his own investigation, leaving the matter in the hands of the F.B.I. The reform mayor shrugs like an old regular--it is too hot an issue to touch. If the Police and Fire Board had held hearings, he explains, "One half of the city would have accused them of a whitewash and the other half of injuring the department...