Word: reform
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...minutes Spence answered council members' questions, many of which focused on the council's desire to reform the University's tenure system...
...interests of student applicants as the primary consideration. Harvard is unique in the extent of its involvement in these competitions on students's behalf. All this is not to say that Harvard's system is faultless, but it is this concern to maximize our effectiveness for students that prompted reform consideration in the first place and which continues to promote these discussions. It is a tribute to OCS and Dean Jewett that they are as involved as they are and that the status quo is always under scrutiny. It may that Harvard's procedures are not as effective as they...
...victory party. They discovered instead that Gephardt had called the session to lament the lack of new laws with his name on them, an astonishing attitude for someone who had spent only two years in the House. Eventually he focused on two issues: the Bradley-Gephardt tax-reform bill and the Gephardt trade amendment. In each instance, Gephardt helped fashion new solutions to complicated problems through hard work and an unusual mastery of facts. His near evangelical faith in the power of meetings to clear legislative snags -- Gephardt is a sort of walking version of the book You Can Negotiate...
Yugoslavia's economic turmoil was echoed last week in Poland and Rumania. In Warsaw consumers scoured shops for bargains after the government proposed price hikes that would double food costs and triple energy bills. Poles will vote on the reform package, aimed at reviving the tottering economy, in a national referendum this Sunday. In Rumania police reportedly broke up protests by some 5,000 workers in the city of Brasov, demonstrating against harsh labor conditions and growing food shortages...
...perspective is not entirely bleak, however. In Zhao's speech in the 13th Congress, the proposal to reform the political structure popped up. So much for the naysayers. The country knows what it needs to do--and it ought...