Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public Service Commission will meet with the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), the community group that asked for Harvard's help last fall in opposing the plant, on May 1. All written testimony on the plant is due at the Public Service Commission on June 1, and the hearings--which could well last up to two months--will begin about June...
Listeners charged that the Kennedy-Mills bill is a "surrender," and called Kennedy's support for the new bill a "devastating and disillusioning shock" to those who want to reform the health care system...
While from his perspective such a view is understandable, in the context of the prison reform movement, it is questionable. Most prisoners are not successful people and prison just reinforces a person's lack of self-worth. What Hoffa proposes is attractive, and if adopted would certainly be helpful--jobs and parole and improved facilities are fine...
...maintain, and probably rightly, that prison had so little effect on himself personally, that his five years did not call into question more fundamental beliefs, simply promotes mechanistic solutions to what is at heart a very complex social problem. For Hoffa the case for prison reform is so intimately tied up with his own ego, that calling for changes in the prison system acts out revenge and does not reflect real political beliefs. Hoffa is playing ego politics; the prison kick comprises one part of his own rehabilitation as a leader and as a tough...
...York Times editorial writers, the Harvard occupiers were "lawless students" who sought "not to reform but to destroy." The rifling of administrators' files was especially condemned...