Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those in power in Cambridge resist change. Students and young people are prevented or discouraged from registering to vote. Old-time politicians exploit class prejudices to keep "Brattle Street" and blue collar residents from working together for reform. The universities by their real estate policies have slowed the growth of a stable, politically conscious community in Cambridgeport and Riverside...
However, the situation is far from dismal. Five (or more) firm reform voices on the City Council and an effective city manager could restore hope and progress in this city...
This kind of deduction was eliminated in June 1969 by the Tax Reform Act, but the President got his gift in under the wire in March of that year...
...Commons in ascot and sandals, frugged, dated Barbra Streisand, and in general looked and behaved more like a playboy than in the usual stodgy manner of Canadian Prime Ministers. He also fashioned solid accomplishments such as his firm handling of the separatist crisis in 1970, pushing a tax reform through the Commons and opening relations with China...
...first Vietnamese socialists who worked with him at the same time also lived in the same dissolving Vietnamese society, yet they were more accurate in both describing the reasons for the cataclysms and in charting a way out. The Viet Minh program of revolutionary nationalism, socialism and land reform, provided growing numbers of Vietnamese with an explanation for their confusion and a political program that helped resolve it. In a sense, both the Viet Minh and the Cao Dai tried to answer the same questions posed by a crumbling traditional society, yet because the Viet Minh's answers were more...