Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furnished a workable solution to that dilemma, but it is clear that leaders and potential leaders will have to work in three interrelated yet distinct areas: 1) institutional reform; 2) political philosophy; 3) personal attitudes...
...Reform: Balance of Powers...
...When I was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, I saw Congress pass bills on clean air and clean water when they knew?absolutely knew?that the goals couldn't be fulfilled." Both Houses are poorly led. The machinery is creaky, the resources scant, and efforts at effective reform seem once again to have been smothered...
...office in the provinces. "It's learning by doing," says Director Racine. Part of the second year is spent in private industry or working for a nationalized company. There is no formal curriculum, but the students are required to write papers on such issues as monetary reform or the 1973 Brandt-Brezhnev accord. They also attend frequent seminars, conducted by top civil servants, diplomats and businessmen...
...efforts were rewarded when Premier Jacques Chirac won an overwhelming parliamentary vote of confidence for the new government. Last week, however, Giscard and Chirac discovered that there are pitfalls in moving ahead with too much haste. Only twelve days after appointing Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 50, as Minister of Reform, they were forced to fire the millionaire publisher of L'Express and intellectual gadfly. The reason: J.J.-S.S.'s public criticism of the government's intention to continue nuclear tests in the Pacific...