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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif., Beer says this tendency has joined "an enfeebled sense of social purpose" and "an incoherent pluralism" in unbalancing government and politics. He says the tendency can be contained and its bad effects "ameliorated by good intentions and prudent reform." But Beer adds, "The lesson, in short, is: Don't expect too much...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Beer Says Growth Of the Presidency Causes Watergates | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) accused the Nixon administration Saturday of taking a "false public stand" on the issue of campaign financing reform and said the White House has "frustrated every effort to end the kind of abuses which occurred...

Author: By Philip E. Clapp, | Title: Nixon Administration Torpedoed Reform Bill, Kennedy Charges | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

Meyers met Thursday with officials of the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), the citizens' group that has led the opposition to the plant and that first solicited Harvard's help in fighting the project...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Attorney General of Arkansas Wants Harvard to Aid Study of AP&L Plant | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) issued its report on Arkansas Power and Light's proposed Arkansas River power plant yesterday, citing studies by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and other groups to support its position that the AP&L's plans should not be approved...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Study Attacks AP&L Plan | 12/7/1973 | See Source »

PEOPLE OPPOSED TO social change often argue that disobeying the law is not the best way to bring about reform. But men did not make laws to act as obstacles to a moral society. Laws reflect the moral tenor of society, and an obsolete law is never changed unless people act to oppose...

Author: By Steve Luxenberg, | Title: Rhodes Rhetoric | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

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