Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another casualty will be the $20 billion welfare-reform program that Carter proposed last year. Aside from costing too much, the whole rationale for "reform" was thrown into question at Senate hearings this month. A $60 million, seven-year study conducted by the Stanford Research Institute in Seattle and Denver showed that people in guaranteed annual income programs, the centerpiece of the Carter plan, worked fewer hours than before, and their marriages broke up more frequently than those of persons on the present welfare system. Carter is considering supporting a revised welfare proposal that would not be fully funded until...
James Lawson, co-director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws for Massachussetts, said yesterday that this kind of research will ultimately lead to the decriminalization of marijuana by increasing public awareness that "marijuana is not mystical, will not turn you into a crazed addict, and is indeed good for treating such things as menstrual cramps, chemotherapy side-effects, and glaucoma...
...Faculty. If Harvard wants to maintain its reputation as an institution of learning, it must not neglect the foundation of the University-- the College. Creating greater interaction among professors and students will unquestionably improve the undergraduate program. The Faculty should not delay in passing and enforcing the several reform proposals now being refined by Bowersock...
...mainstream the cults reject America. The political left and remnants of the '60s movements also attack the cults with a passion; after all, the cults focus attention on spiritual matters, self-realization, mystical attainment, and divert attention from the ever-delayed but inevitable revolution, or at least from reform and restructure of the economy and political life. The established religions also turn away, secure in the knowledge that they have the true message and all others must be frauds and charlatans. This leaves little more than a small lunatic fringe in defense of the cults; Mark Lane, famous for conjuring...
...people in MLP: anarcho-capitalists, anarcho-socialists, minimal statists. We're not a standard political party," Nason said. The party sponsors libertarian candidates in elections throughout the country, and serves as a mechanism for libertarians to meet other people interested in working on specific political issues, like tax reform and local civil liberties issues...