Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article on the new Jewish Reform Haggadah for Passover [April 8] once again demonstrates that those who stray from traditional Orthodox Judaism eventually realize the necessity of returning to a tradition that has no need for "reform" because it is a modern, fulfilling way of life, which already contains within it all the processes for any necessary change...
...Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now, which calls itself ACORN, sought Harvard's help because Harvard is the largest single stockholder in Middle South Utilities Inc. Middle South is the holding company that owns Arkansas Power and Light, the utility building the 2800-megawatt plant...
...pressure for reform is thus considerable -but, as in the past, it may not prove strong enough. As far back as 1907, Theodore Roosevelt suggested tax-supported campaigns; though the idea got nowhere in the U.S., roughly half of the Western industrial democracies subsequently adopted some form of public financing. For 46 years, campaign financing in the U.S. was governed by the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, but not a single member of Congress was ever punished for transgressing it. The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 sought to remedy the old law's defects by insisting on more...
...greatest impetus-and opportunity-for reforming campaign financing in this century has come from Watergate. Yet 22 months have passed since the Watergate breakin, and nothing has been accomplished. Despite the Senate action, prospects for significant reform are still dim because of stonewalling by Wayne Hays (whose appetite for reform, in the words of the public lobby Common Cause, "is near zero") and the threat of a Nixon veto...
Hays, Nixon and other opponents of reform note that some of the proposals now being weighed will prove to be unwieldy or unworkable. Undoubtedly. But that is no reason for not adopting, and soon, the following...