Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record, General António de Spínola should be the last man in Portugal to lead a campaign for reform and liberalization. For most of his 64 years he has been a stern authoritarian. The son of a top financial adviser to Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, he was a volunteer fighter on the Franco side in the Spanish Civil War, commanding a detachment of other Portuguese volunteers. A few years later, the Portuguese high command, recognizing his potential, sent him to Nazi Germany for training with the then invincible Wehrmacht. From the German side...
Officials of the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now, the group that asked Harvard six months ago to help fight the plant, were understandably happy with the ACSR statement; they had, after all, gotten the ACSR to recommend for the first time intervention by Harvard on a shareholder issue that did not involve a proxy resolution. However, the ACSR recommendations may be too little, too late to have any real effect...
...usual, the misguided, unnecessary search for new meaning ends successfully only within tradition, demonstrating that it is not Orthodox Judaism that needs to be reformed. It is Reform Jews who need desperately to be educated...
...this end, Harvard joined other institutions in asking the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to undertake a study entitled, "College and University Tax Exemption and the Need for Tax Structure Reform in Massachusetts." In its preliminary description of the problems, the FRB said that "we believe that the real villain is Massachusetts' extraordinary reliance on the local property tax. We hope to show that a general overhaul of the tax structure would be mutually advantageous to the universities and colleges, to their host communities, and to low and middle income citizens as well...
...CTOC holds that the solution to housing problems is the abolition of private property. CTOC spokesmen argue that control lowers rents for some tenants, and makes it harder for landlords to evict residents. Controls are also useful, according to CTOC, as a catalyst in tenant organization for more basic reform...