Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to military failure was rapid, but ineffectual. China looked to the West, saw American science and European reforms, and tried to imitate both. Poetry, the medium of the crumbling Confucian society, became both more worldly and more patriotic. This period was known as The Hundred Days of Reform. It ended when the empress dowager imprisoned the emperor in September...
...record of Cambridge's reform Democrats in the legislature is as flat as that of their peers. They vote easily and often to launch new social programs, but they don't follow through to make sure that the policies get off the ground and are adequately funded. They virtually never vote together on behalf of Cambridge's interests--indeed, the one vote last year affecting the city in which they came together as a bloc was against the city's interests, an effort to abolish proportional representation. This year's executive reorganization bill was resisted in part by Cambridge legislators...
...were to isolate a Republican spirit, it would presumably be an independant, honest one, willing to contribute to better public service, suspicious of inefficient government, and sympathetic to reform to provide best performance from tax dollars. As recent events have shown, these are virtues in short supply at some levels of our party as well as the Democratic. But in Cambridge--where the Democratic Party has held a death grip for decades--there can be no question about the need for an alternative. The sooner the better...
Kennedy said the administration "deceived the American public by taking an officially neutral stand" on a comprehensive campaign reform bill, privately lobbying for its defeat. The bill was defeated in the Senate last Thursday, after a filibuster by its opponents...
Kennedy said campaign reform should be the major issue for Democratic candidates in the 1974 campaigns. "The question now is whether political influence should be apportioned on the basis of wealth," he said, "and this is the issue on which we can elect an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress next year...