Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this was no ordinary power plant. It would be a 2800-megawatt coal-burning structure with four huge smokestacks, and would probably be the most polluting plant in the country. The group that approached Harvard, the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), contended that the plant would ruin the air and water around it and spoil nearby farmers' crops unless it were equipped with additional controls to stem its sulfur dioxide emissions...
...weeks later, a counter-offensive began to take shape. Lowell, Mather, Adams, South, Quincy and Winthrop Houses all decided not to participate in the CRR, and in Currier House two students began to try to organize a College-wide CRR reform move...
Leontief is an outspoken critic of the Nixon administration who would like to see more resources allocated towards "improving the well-being of the common man." Specifically, Leontief has advocated tax reform and military spending cutbacks...
Although it appeared that the hiring battle was lost, the recommendations of a curriculum reform committee headed by Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics, Nobel laureate, and a man who had just made known that he was considering accepting an offer to teach at Stanford, underlined that the reformers' challenge was still serious...
...Without agrarian reform, the almost inhuman misery of the rural workers will persist," he has said. "Without banking reform, little will be done for the development of the country, and without fiscal reform, the rich will continue to grow richer while the poor will continue to suffer...