Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Practices like these are equivalent to torture. It is intolerable that the Massachusetts government can allow them to continue. Obviously, the nation's corrections system must be overhauled. If the more shocking examples of brutality, like Walpole's blue rooms, do not provide the impetus for reform, it would seem that there is little hope for progress...
...addition, the convention passed a resolution stating that the group will not discuss "the internal structure, the reform of, or the abolition of, any existing University organization...
...snipe at the President's tax program, even before they get their first formal briefing on the proposals this week from Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal. The package calls for $34 billion in tax cuts, reduced to $25 billion net by about $9 billion in new revenue-raising reforms. The legislators are delighted, even eager, to vote for tax reductions in this election year, but their reaction to reform is distinctly chilly...
...avoid entangling the stimulative tax cuts in a knockdown congressional fight, Carter offered a list of reforms much shorter than the one he was contemplating last fall. Among the reform measures retained in the package are the elimination of individual itemized deductions for sales and gasoline taxes; personal property levies on cars, furniture, etc., which only a few states impose, would also be made nondeductible. Other proposals call for tightening up on medical expense deductions and imposing taxes on unemployment insurance payments, now exempt, collected by individuals making $20,000 or more a year...
...President faces a particularly rough time in trying to impose reforms on business. There is little likelihood that Congress will accept the White House proposal to phase out the Domestic International Sales Corporations (DISC) program, under which companies can defer taxes on some of the profits they earn by exporting, or that it will end deferral of U.S. taxes on corporate profits earned and reinvested abroad. The legislators are against anything that might put U.S. businessmen at a disadvantage with their European and Japanese competitors. Says Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York, a collector of Indian tomahawks who sounds...