Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They stood around the Capitol somewhat apprehensively, massed specifically against the labor reform bill being debated in the Senate, but a symbol of something far broader and deeper than that one issue...
...opposition to Soviet-Cuban adventurism in Africa, the U.S. must not appear to be embracing the policies of South Africa and Rhodesia, whose governments have quietly hoped that the recent troubles in Zaïre would have the effect of reducing Western pressure on Pretoria and Salisbury for racial reform...
Initially, Carter had hoped to reform the welfare system without spending more. The price of Califano's plan was originally estimated at $2.8 billion, but its critics now claim that the plan would increase welfare payments by $20 billion a year or more. Congress is considering other ways of tackling welfare, all of which face a major problem: they add a lot more money to the budget during a period of concern over inflation...
...amendment would undo almost a decade of egalitarian tax reform. The basic rule on capital gains has long been, and still is, that only half of them are subject to income tax; until 1969, the maximum tax on capital gains was 25%. But beginning in 1970, liberals who considered that tax rate to be an undue favor to the rich raised the maximum tax on the biggest capital gams reaped by individuals to 49.1%,* by far the highest rate in the industrial world; the top rate on corporate capital gains is 30%. Steiger would set the clock back to 1969?...
...givers would have to insist on tough conditions: not only effective economic-development plans, but also population-control programs and the reform of universities that produce too many lawyers and literary scholars, too few agronomists and engineers. If some LDCs equate these conditions with colonialism, they can refuse the aid. The givers must be prepared to aid some peoples ruled by one-party dictatorships - there are almost no impoverished democracies - while spurning the Idi Amins who blatantly trample human rights...