Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international support while escalating the military pressure in the regime. Spokesmen for the front have issued a call for Somoza's immmediate ouster and for free elections to be held, by a provisional government in which the FSLN would be represented. The demands of the Sandinistas include sweeping reform of the agrarian structure, nationalization of the banking sector, concentration of social welfare programs and education in particular, the establishment of diplomatic relations with socialist countries, and the expropriation of Somoza's massive business empire...
Indeed, the politicians support Palau. The poverty and suffering they don't care to relieve make them appear to be scoundrels. But Palau makes them respectable, and he comes cheaper than land reform or democracy...
...want to keep the name Mount McKinley, while only 23% favor the change. Alaska now has a Denali Pass, Denali Camp, Denali State Park and Denali Highway. This makes that name rather commonplace, compared to that of the martyred President who, history records, was a leader in labor-law reform and in making the U.S. a dynamic world force-among other achievements...
...comes the message of immense increases in the Social Security bite and the series of proposed energy taxes that would reach right back into the pocketbooks of middle-class Americans and business people. There are still echoes of Jimmy Carter's campaign promises to push for major tax reform, and that could wipe out many of the small harbors of tax relief...
Most important, critics assert-correctly-that on many decisions carrying great economic impact the economic advisers have no voice at all or are overruled. Blumenthal and Schultze had only marginal influence on the energy and Social Security reform programs, two of the most important projects affecting the economy since the Inauguration. While Schultze has been urging tax cuts, those two programs will hit the economy with a double whammy of multibillion-dollar tax hikes that may halt growth. Officials concede the economic impact of some programs was not sufficiently taken into account but add that only the President can weigh...