Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program foundered more than welfare reform. Every effort at change seemed only to add more people to the relief rolls. Increasing the number of social workers did not help, nor did the Work Incentive Program. Welfare mothers, who make up the bulk of recipients, often lacked the education and the basic skills to find suitable employment. Throughout, writes Gilbert Y. Steiner, director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution, well-meaning planners "overestimated the potential of the welfare population," which numbered 14.8 million, or 7.1% of the U.S. population...
While it stunts industrial output and cramps consumers, the oil emergency has also stalled the movement toward reform of the international monetary system. The values of major currencies have been wildly gyrating-some up, some down. The dollar has been rising against other currencies because the U.S. has much more oil than Western Europe or Japan and thus stands to be hurt less severely than they by the energy emergency. In the past six weeks the dollar has climbed about 10% against the French franc, 8% against the German mark and 7.5% against the Japanese...
...fluctuations, international trade and investments have continued to flow without noticeable interruption. Ironically, the reason is that the finance ministers of the 126-country International Monetary Fund were unable to reach agreement on a new monetary system at their meeting in Nairobi last September. Postponing any further action on reform until July, they left in effect the ad hoc system of "floating" exchange rates that has existed since the last big monetary crisis a year ago. If they had agreed at Nairobi to fix rigid exchange rates, the pressures generated by the oil price hike in late 1973 could well...
Peace will turn off the faucet of American aid and permit peasants to return to the countryside, where the NLF will be able to mobilize them into its democratically carried out land reform program. Thieu realizes that peace will aid the NLF, so he continues...
President Bok in September called for a major study of calendar reform...