Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simon said "I think this is an appropriate time to reform an inappropriate body...
With consistent skill and forcefulness, but with a knack for compromising at the right moment, he has led the fight for bills for aid to education, consumer protection, liberal trade policies, pension reform and restriction of the President's warmaking powers. Legislative aides have voted him the second most effective Senator (after Democrat Henry M. Jackson) and the most intelligent. But in the aftermath of Watergate, his virtues have the appearance of vices to some outraged citizens. A cautious, scrupulous politician, he rarely speaks out on an issue until he has absorbed all the facts...
...tune with the times, you should run a cover picture of Houston Flournoy on your next issue, plus at least two pictures of him at work in your inside story. Fair play is what campaign reform is all about, and you are the first and worst violator...
...presenting his economic program to Congress, President Ford urged creation of a National Commission on Regulatory Reform to undertake a "long-overdue and total reexamination" of regulatory agencies. The commission would identify federal rules and regulations that increase costs to consumers and work to get them dropped. Even some regulators are pressing for change, violating Washington's unwritten rule that no regulatory agency speaks out against another. In a recent Detroit speech, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis A. Engman lashed out at most regulatory agencies, particularly the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board. He said that their...
...provisions of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act expired seven years ago, the White House has lacked the authority to negotiate tariff changes. The new bill grants the President unprecedented power to raise or lower tariffs and negotiate other trade concessions. Its enactment should vitalize the round of trade-reform bargaining among scores of nations that officially began in Tokyo in September 1973 but that has been marking time until the U.S. Administration got the authority to conclude new agreements...