Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stability to the Social Security system-at the cost of a huge payroll tax increase (see following story). Partly to make up for it, the President said that next year "we'll have a major [income] tax reduction for both business and individuals" as well as "substantial tax reform...
Though he has abandoned his idea of eliminating tax benefits for capital gains, at least in 1978, businessmen remained uncertain and apprehensive about what tax reform might bring. Through word and deed, Carter has also antagonized many other key voting groups. Farmers were disturbed because he had proposed lower price supports than a more generous Congress decided they merited. (At his press conference Carter expressed sympathy for the plight of many farmers but said that he would not have participated in their strike if he were still working the land in Sumpter County, Ga.) Labor was miffed because...
...question, which may determine whether or not the new Evangelicals eventually change the balance of power in U.S. Protestantism, is what they will do collectively with this passionate sense of God's presence in everyday life. Mainstream Protestantism, though dutifully devoted to social reform, often seems drained of vitality. For years it undervalued a notable Evangelical asset, the kind of religious zeal that causes embarrassment but might work miracles. One critic of the Evangelicals. Activist Preacher William Sloane Coffin Jr., of New York City's Riverside Church, ruefully tells the story of the Evangelical who said. "You could ice skate...
...Evangelical Christians can understand the stark conversion of scapegraces and rapscallions, since the history of Christianity is full of agonizing personal reform (St. Paul. St. Augustine). Recalling the anguish of saints and mystics in their lifelong search for a flash from heaven or a sudden touch of grace, some Christians find it difficult to accept the validity of easy Evangelical contacts with God. Still, grace has always been amazing, and that judgment may be too harsh. Whether they wrestled mightily in their souls for a private sense of the divine presence or slipped salvation on as easily as a glove...
Politics and wealth create problems of their own. Respectability and riches do not often lead to serious efforts at social reform. Money also creates image problems for revivalists like Oral Roberts, who thinks his finances are nobody's business, and Graham, who only this year for the first time decided to file open financial statements for his national program...