Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress now seems to agree on four parts of the long-delayed energy package: gas-price deregulation, the promotion of conservation, measures to encourage industrial conversion to coal and a drive for reform of utility rates. But it may be July before staffers translate the agreements into legislative language, and even then there will be tough floor fights in both houses. There could even be a recurrence of last fall's Senate filibuster on the issue of deregulation...
...learning, the mullahs want Iran to be governed by Islamic law, as are Saudi Arabia and Libya. The mullahs' differences with the Shah date back to 1963, when they were divested of vast religious endowments as part of the "white revolution," the Shah's land-reform program. In addition to objecting to the lack of civil liberties, Shar-ietmadari and his colleagues want the Shah to enforce an old constitutional provision that would allow five mullahs to sit as a watchdog committee to see that no laws passed by parliament violate the precepts of the Koran...
President Carter, by nature, is what I would call a structural reformer. He doesn't like to deal with the superficialities of problems. He really likes to deal with the essence of the problem with thorough, far-reaching reform. You see this in his domestic programs and in the things he's trying to do in foreign policy. That generates much more resistance. Indeed, it may sometimes create coalitions of opponents and thereby create problems...
What Byrd, the White House and some 54 Senators are fighting for is the so-called labor-reform bill, which would amend the 1935 National Labor Relations Act. In general, it would make it easier for unions to organize workers and harder for companies to oppose unionization. Specifically, the bill would...
...next two or three years the Federal Government may destroy this feature of the American system. The destruction could be accomplished silently and invisibly-in the name of tax reform. The threat lies in proposals that would reduce, directly and indirectly, the charitable contributions Americans itemize as deductions from taxable income. And there are even those who, with the intent of simplifying the tax code, would eliminate such deductions entirely. With due respect to the reformers, the alarm should be shouted: Our tradition of private giving for public purposes is endangered by some of their good intentions...