Word: reform
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...midst of these boycott votes, former student members of the CRR, who have been trying to reform the committee, encouraged support of the boycott until the Faculty accepts a slate of reforms to make the CRR a more equitable body...
Interest in the House races focused less on the redistricting, which aided Democrat incumbents at the expense of Republicans, than on the efforts of the Coalition for Legislative Reform, a maverick group seeking to dilute the power of House speaker Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn) by capturing 55 to 60 of the House seats. Returns for Coalition candidates were not available early this morning...
Florida voters yesterday also refused to add an equal rights amendment to their state constitution. A California proposal to ban smoking in all public places failed, as did a Missouri attempt to institute a right-to-work law. And the voters of Philadelphia refused to reform their city charter to allow Mayor Frank Rizzo to seek an unprecedented third term in office...
Goma said that even though he worked to "reform and not reconstruct Rumania we in the movement were arrested, humiliated, drugged, tortured and finally thrown out into the street...
...feeling guilty and they'll bend over backward to cooperate, seek counseling." But some parents "go on insisting the child fell down a flight of stairs long after it's clear they've been hurting the child." Claims of parental love, denials of guilt, promises to reform, all inevitably affect the findings of judges when child defenders go to the courts attempting to take children away. "I think my biggest problem with the job," says Ferzoco, who like Belisle now acts as a phone screener, "was going to court all the time and seeing the judge return...