Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urban society. In his populist fevers he sometimes seems mistakenly to champion mediocrity rather than excellence. Some of his prejudices seem to arise more from his small-town background than from reason and experience in a diverse world. A Congressman who went to the White House to argue tax reform with the President came away feeling that Carter made good sense until he began to explain why first-class air fare should not be allowed as a business expense. "There was something funny about the way he talked," said the puzzled visitor. "It was more than just an objection...
...that he wanted its support for his program of voluntary wage and price restraints to curb inflation. Only the day before, at a lavish White House breakfast meeting, Carter had announced a gift of sorts for the 83-year-old Meany: a solid Administration endorsement for the troubled labor-reform bill. But despite Carter's help on this pet Meany project, the labor leader turned a cold shoulder to the President's request...
...bitter words showed that Meany had not been softened by the President's support for the labor-reform bill. That bill, which the Senate is scheduled to take up this week, allows the National Labor Relations Board to impose stiff cash penalties on employers who unlawfully block union organizing efforts. It also shortens from 45 days to 30 days the allowed organizing period before employees vote on union representation (thus allowing management less time to campaign against unionization). After the House approved the measure last October, businessmen descended on Washington to lobby against it, and it now faces...
...since then he has quietly allowed the expansion of women's education. But he has often told friends that he is against the "Atatürk approach," a reference to the way in which Turkey's Kemal Atatürk outlawed the veil and traditional dress and tried to impose social reform from the top. Fahd favors the sort of grass-roots evolution that seems to be taking place in his country today...
...responsibility. This is often accompanied by a terrible kind of impatience, almost a sort of hysteria, where every problem, every mistake, or seeming mistake, becomes part of a self-reinforcing pattern of disaster. When Carter puts huge, long-range problems on the agenda- shrinking Big Government, civil service reform-we say that he overpromises (which he has done in some cases), or that he is unrealistic, without conceding that in our system such problems may take a generation to solve or even to ameliorate, but that someone must make a start...