Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reform. Killed...
Labor law reform. Dispatched to die in committee...
Since becoming head of the agency 15 months ago, Administrator Jay Solomon, 56, a former land developer, has tightened supervision and procedures. But he says that further efforts at reform were hampered because many employees assumed that, as had been the case for years, real administrative power lay with Solomon's deputy, Robert Griffin, a close friend of House Speaker Tip O'Neill...
...about a scheme that still puzzles many experts. They were outraged, though, that the Labor government should try to use that skepticism about the plan as a bargaining counter?against French privilege. According to the French, Britain tried to trade possible support for the monetary plan in exchange for reform of the Nine's longstanding agricultural policy, which is sacrosanct to subsidized French farmers and anathema to British housewives, who believe it has raised their food prices. The French were having none of it. "We cannot link the monetary problem to the agricultural question," snapped a French foreign ministry official...
Every President since Eisenhower has proposed reductions, but without success. Says Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano: "It is an annual rite of spring for the Executive Branch to march up Capitol Hill with a broad proposal to reform Impact Aid and to march down the hill in the summer without...