Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About one year after House committees decided to send delegates to a convention to reform student government at Harvard, the convention's brainchild--Harvard's new Student Assembly--took its first few faltering steps...
...political rights of Mississippi blacks. Evers's conservative pabulum is almost what one would expect to hear from a George Wallace or a Strom Thurmond: defense of the American way of life from the Russian threat, pursuit of fiscal integrity to wipe out the nefarious national debt, welfare reform to ferret out the cheaters, etc. When Evers isn't talking like an arch-conservative, he's persuading Mississippians he can better fatten their wallets than any other politician. Evers boasts of his Washington connections and how only he can "bring the bacon home to Mississippi." Any ideals he's ever...
...reality, Thurmond has been an aggressive watchdog for corporate interests on several fronts. He fought hard to defeat the labor law reform bill, for example, and has even gone so far as to actively discourage companies that were less than rabidly anti-union from locating in South Carolina...
...REFORM THE MONETARY SYSTEM. Beyond these short-and medium-term measures, there is need for long-range changes in the world's money system. Since early 1973 the system has been based on floating rates: a currency's value is set by supply and demand on money markets. This replaced the old system in which rates were firmly fixed in relation to gold and the dollar. The earlier structure had served fairly well for almost three decades but then had broken down because exchange rates could be changed only abruptly, sharply and in a crisis atmosphere...
...that he was "just a beginner." That was the truth, and the reason why he will remain forever, in terms of policy, the unknown Pope. In his days in office John Paul was able to sign only one major decree, and even that will now become invalid: a sweeping reform of seminaries that he had postdated for December release. Ironically, the same document was approved by his predecessor, Pope Paul VI, whose postdated signature also became invalid when he died. Now the document must await the scrutiny of a third Pope...