Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Altogether, Dahrendorf should fit his new post well. From the days when the Webbs' friend George Bernard Shaw complained about their "incorrigible spooning over social statistics," the school has proved a lively intellect base for reform. Says Dahrendorf friend, Columbia Historian Fritz Stern "He is by temperament a radical reforner who has at last found a liberal home
Sandler said the two most significant problems in prison reform were the lack of access of lawyers and the public to prisoners and the failure to hold prison guards and officials accountable for their treatment of inmates...
When Governor Francis W. Sargent fired reform-minded corrections commissioner John Boone this August, Sandler said, he exacerbated these problems by cutting out such innovative programs as prisoner furloughs and 24-hour citizen observation in prisons...
...year-old History major, who described himself as a liberal Republican, said the reform he would most like to see instituted in the schools is a greater student role in decisions concerning curricula and discipline
...message has deeply impressed politicians. Last week President Nixon urged Congress to take quick action on bills to reform the use of land. The Senate has already passed a national land-use policy bill, and Congress is considering some 200 other measures dealing with problems from urban growth to forest management to the location of power plants...