Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attica Defense Fund needs contributions desperately, and the National Prisoners' Reform Association, a national union of prison inmates, needs people to help community groups organize on behalf of prisoners' rights. Interested students can contact the Massachusetts Lawyers' Guild in Cambridge, or Joseph Sandler '75, chairman of the Massachusetts Student Coalition on Correctional Change, through Phillips Brooks House...
...government of, for and by those who are willing and able to pay the price." The Minnesota Democrat was pointing out a major lesson of Watergate: the corrosive power of private money in electoral campaigns, what he called "the buy-America system." The efforts of Mondale and other reform-minded legislators bogged down last week in a snarl that once again effectively killed reform of the nation's laws governing campaign financing...
...hospitals where surgery is performed, perhaps 4,500 have a watchdog peer review or "tissue committee." If an undue proportion of the organs removed by a surgeon are found healthy, he gets rapped over the knuckles and is expected to reform. But too many tissue committees are far too lenient. Knowing the imprecision of medicine and their own fallibility, the members are apt to say "There but for the grace of God go I," and let the matter drop...
...accountant who entered politics during the revolution of 1910-21 as mayor of the port of Veracruz, Ruiz Cortines was Governor of the state of Veracruz in 1947 when he was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Miguel Aleman. After his election to the presidency on a reform ticket, Ruiz Cortines published a list of his own assets, ordered his subordinates to do the same and held up payments on suspect contracts for public works...
...same time, the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) and the Arkansas attorney general's office both gave good reason for suspecting that AP&L's environmental impact statement on the plant is not all it might be. In a lengthy report, ACORN blasted AP&L's statement. And Frederic L. Frawley, assistant Arkansas attorney general, said his office's preliminary investigations have raised questions about whether the AP&L statement "is the objective truth...