Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) on Monday rejected requests from 16 representatives of labor unions, liberal and women's groups that he withdraw his support of a bill that would reform the federal criminal code...
...Baltic states, the Ukraine and Georgia, as well as in Moscow, have served as umbrella organizations, sheltering disparate dissident groups under the aegis of human rights. Shcharansky was simultaneously an advocate of the Jewish struggle for free emigration and of various ethnic groups that seek to reform Soviet society from the inside. (Jews are the only national group that has been allowed to emigrate abroad in substantial numbers, on the ground that their homeland is Israel.) Ginzburg was not only an active Helsinki committee member but also a champion of the Soviet Union's estimated 10,000 political prisoners. Pektus...
Even better, Jackson and Project EXCEL have drawn national attention to the fact that reform of inner-city schools, often regarded as hopeless, actually can be achieved. HEW has awarded EXCEL $400,000 next year to expand into four more cities, and the National Institute of Education is funding a study to determine EXCEL'S effectiveness. Indeed students everywhere can learn a lesson from Jesse Jackson: "When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through...
...House has been chipping away relentlessly at Carter's package. Congressional pressure has forced him to reduce the size of the tax cut he proposed from $25 billion to $15 billion. Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee has scrapped one "reform" provision after another. Deductions have been retained for state and local sales and personal property taxes. A plan to tighten deductions for medical costs and casualty losses has been scaled back. The celebrated "three martini lunch" will remain fully deductible for businessmen...
...nation's labor unions have been dwindling in recent years in both membership and political clout. But they mustered all the lobbying power they could behind the Labor Reform Act of 1978. Pressured by AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, President Carter gave the bill forceful, if not all-out, support. But businessmen, large and small, rallied strong opposition, arguing that the bill would put them at a disadvantage with Big Labor and lead to a wave of organizing, particularly in the South, where unions have been weak. Last week, after the bill had been stalled for 19 days...