Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peasants received their just reward from the revolution they had sparked. The reforma agraria, or land reform, distributed among the peasants the land they had already seized from the huge plantations in the countryside. The former peons became small landholders, each with his own individual tract. And, with their new economic position, the peasants experienced a rise in social status. No longer were they to be called indios, or Indians, a term Europeans had used to stigmatize them as inferior beings. From now on they were to be called campesinos, a word whose literal definition--"peasant"--conveys nothing...
...parole in Manhattan last week after serving nearly 18 months for the Great Howard Hughes Hoax, an apparently reformed Clifford Irving said he might write a book about the need for prison reform. "Prison is a farce and a disaster," he declared sententiously. "If you are treated as an untrustworthy person, you become one." He added that "I felt my decision-making abilities had become affected." Then he hurried off to meet Sons Nedsky, 5, and Barney, 4, who were being flown from London to live with him in the U.S. Acknowledging that his wife Edith may divorce him when...
Ronald R. Edmonds, acting director of the Center for Urban Studies and Harvard's representative on the board, said yesterday that the criteria for selecting the speakers and the group of critics were "that they have the credentials but more importantly that they believe in the efficacy of social reform, that they be optimists who are committed to equity through education...
...Harvard is out of touch with the mainstream of American education, he probably also realizes that if his and Rosovsky's new statement of purposes and aims is really going to have an enormous impact, it'll really have to be revolutionary and not more of this jive curriculum reform. The prexy and the dean have been pretty close-mouthed about what they have in mind for the overhaul of the system, but if you just contemplate the depths of understanding of economics Bok displayed in his talk to the Republicans, it's hard not to conclude that...
...three men are advisors to the Committee for a Sane Drug policy, a reform group actively working for the passage of legislation to legalize marijuana...