Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program, kicked off this fall with a $700,000 endowment from the University, aims to improve the quality of public schools. It also salutes Conant, Harvard's 23rd president who served from 1933 to 19553 and was considered a strong advocate of public school reform...
...past two weeks. Unless Chun reopens talks, said Kim Young Sam, "resistance and uprisings" would be unavoidable. Others made similar predictions. Said Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou Hwan of Seoul, whose influence goes far beyond the country's 2 million Roman Catholics: "The people's dream for constitutional reform, which they had expected to open a new brighter era, has been miserably shattered." The prelate added that South Korea would be "soaked with tear gas once again...
Election polls show the ruling National Party to be far ahead, but in some ways it is losing. Botha set out in the campaign to show the world that South African whites solidly support his policy of modest reform of the apartheid system. Instead, it has revealed gaping splits among the whites and growing unrest among blacks...
...nearly a year the government and the opposition have been arguing the pros and cons of constitutional reform. Two weeks ago the opposition's two major leaders, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam, pulled out of the New Korea Democratic Party, the largest antigovernment group in parliament, because they felt the N.K.D.P. president was about to agree to a compromise supported by Chun. Citing the "mess in the opposition," Chun last week said he could not deal with a party unable to "resolve its own internal problems through dialogue." Critics charge that the president encouraged the divisions, negotiated only...
...cash in on one of the greatest tax breaks of all time: the Individual Retirement Account, or IRA. Since 1982, when IRAs became available to all workers, some $320 billion has been stashed away by 28 million households in the handy, tax-deductible, tax-deferred savings vehicles. With tax reform, however, the rate at which IRA money will be saved beginning in the 1987 tax year could fall drastically. Amid the crush to use the plan for a 1986 deduction, money managers were struggling hard to educate consumers about the future, and occasionally mourning the passing of a friend. Moaned...