Word: reform
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Giuliani counters that restoring democracy to the union is precisely the Government's plan. But Ken Paff, national organizer for the reform group Teamsters for a Democratic Union, believes the answer isn't a trusteeship but an open, supervised election. "Our people will vote no if given the chance," he says...
...growing number of ordinary Hungarians, one-third of whom have relatives in Transylvania, called for more decisive action. With the approval of reform-minded Mikhail Gorbachev, Budapest endorsed vitriolic attacks on the Ceausescu regime in the semi-official press. In January the Hungarian government legalized the status of the refugees already spilling across the border; two months later parliament voted $6 million to pay for resettlement programs in cooperation with church groups and the Hungarian Red Cross...
...such a scrupulous numbers cruncher end up having to impose $115 million in new taxes? Federal tax reform. To take advantage of the favorable capital-gains measures in the old law, taxpayers unloaded huge quantities of stocks and property in 1986. That boom in financial transactions gave Massachusetts a $140 million budget surplus in 1987. The bill came due this spring, when tax revenue from the windfall dried up and the state found itself in the red. Similar scenarios have unfolded in New York and California, where fellow Democrat Mario Cuomo and Republican George Deukmejian each face deficits...
Gorbachev, in an impassioned speech to the 5000 Communists gathered at the Kremlin, appealed for their support in overhauling Soviet institutions, warning that socialism "will die unless we reform the political system...
...spending $160 billion a year on its huge purchases of sophisticated weapons and mundane supplies, the U.S. Defense Department has become the "largest and the most important business enterprise in the world," declared a presidential commission that undertook to reform the Pentagon's procurement procedures two years ago. It is also a system, said the commission, that is "fundamentally ill" in the way it awards 15 million contracts annually. Just how wrong things have gone at the Pentagon became apparent last week. Operation Ill Wind, an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and bribery in the handling of major purchases...