Word: reform
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...impetus for future reform of the Church will come from a realization of the great diversity of the many local branches of the Church throughout the world, Stendahl said. Noting Pope Paul's efforts to carry out the Second Vatican Council's call for a loosening of the rigid Church hierarchy, he added, "The machinery for such diversity was laid during Paul's pontificate...
...lead a spiritual community, not a gathering of scarlet-vestured Congressmen. And it is too easy to forget that Paul struggled for 15 years to hold together just such a community of faith, regardless of the cries of the extreme left or right; that he oversaw the most thorough reform the Church had seen in 2000 years; that he encouraged an unprecedented spirit of ecumenism and began the move toward unity with other branches of the Christian faith; and that he steadfastly refused to give in to the efforts of rightists such as Archbishop Lefebvre to erode the reforms...
...President sent Blumenthal around the nation last summer to rally support for his program. Speaking mainly to groups of businessmen, Blumenthal got a stony response. Yet when Carter finally announced his tax package in his 1978 State of the Union message, he stubbornly insisted once again on including reform proposals...
Action on civil service reform, hospital costs...
Civil Service Reform. To improve the federal bureaucracy's efficiency, Carter proposed that hiring and firing procedures be streamlined for the Government's 2.8 million civil service employees. For high-level bureaucrats, he also recommended greater use of salary incentives based on job performance. Last week the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee approved a bill, but only after it had been substantially rewritten under pressure from lobbyists for Government employees. The committee cut back the incentive program to a two-year experiment and limited it to three agencies, to be designated by the Administration. It proposed...