Word: reform
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...spreading skepticism about the pronouncements of the mighty, a new impatience with politics as usual, a new eagerness to challenge practices that were once bunked at. This demand for higher standards can have practical benefits. Last week, for instance, President Ford signed a long overdue campaign-financing reform bill. The voters of California have approved a stringent anticorruption measure. But there is also a tendency to condemn prematurely and to burn today's leaders with the laser of hindsight. It is a particularly painful period both for public leaders and for a people in need of leaders who merit...
Pack of Contenders. The Conservatives used to replace an unpopular leader behind the privacy of mahogany doors with a gentlemanly turn of the knife and a three-star brandy to stanch the wound. But Heath was the first leader chosen by a vote under the 1965 reform rules, and no one at the time bothered to determine how he could be ousted. "I'm afraid my system wasn't all that well thought out," said Humphrey Berkeley, who drew up the rules. "It allows someone like Ted Heath, if he's stubborn enough, to be a life...
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: The executive power should be reinforced. A stronger executive would enable a government to work far more effectively. Under the old constitution, we needed six months to pass a law. That is absurd. Under such conditions it was nearly impossible for Parliament to produce the kind of legislation the Greek people needed. I tried hard before leaving Greece in 1963 to revise the constitution. I failed. I had a quarrel with the crown and the opposition, and because I failed to revise the constitution I left Greece. I knew that without revising the constitution, democracy here was impossible...
...bill "was dropped," but there is "no doubt that there will be action this year aimed at getting exemption up until general tax reform," Brewer said yesterday...
Gerald Ford, presiding over a republic somewhat less ideal than Plato's, disagrees. Last week, as part of his war on inflation, he urged the creation of a "National Commission on Regulatory Reform" that could indeed act as guardian of the guardians-the deeply entrenched, highly independent federal agencies that regulate everything from the air waves to pipelines. The commission's task will be formidable: to identify and eliminate the hodgepodge of antiquated rules that in Ford's words, "increase costs to the consumer without good reason in today's economic climate...