Word: reform
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While students and faculty may not necessarilyagree on what stance the College should take on avariety of issues including the alcohol policy,overcrowding and disciplinary reform, Jewett'sstance on these has won kudos from all over theUniversity community...
...East Asian Languages and Civilizations concentrator used his $2200 grant to research the extent to which the liberalization reforms associated with Premier Deng Xiao Ping have spilled over into the Chinese press. "The press will show the true colors of reform; it's the melting point of reformation," he says...
...government's new $92 billion budget would affect their pocketbooks. In his budget message in Ottawa's Neo-Gothic House of Commons, Finance Minister Michael Wilson announced an 8.4% decrease in Canada's $24 billion national deficit, crowed about the country's improved economic outlook and promised a tax-reform program that would lower personal taxes. Wilson had barely finished announcing the good news when most Canadians yawned and turned their attention back to the question that has really preoccupied them lately: How much longer can Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his scandal-ridden Conservative government hold...
Beyond the glitter, the latest steps in Gorbachev's drive to reform Soviet society produced a mosaic of hopeful and chilling signs. While the Kremlin leader continued to plump for peace and told his visitors that Moscow was sincere in its "new approach to humanitarian problems," the Soviet bureaucracy seemed as stolid as ever. Officials issued confused and conflicting statements about Iosif Begun, an ailing Jewish dissident who at week's end was finally released after a 40-month confinement. As the Begun drama proceeded, perhaps a thousand political prisoners remained in detention in Soviet prisons and psychiatric hospitals...
...have to watch their student government squander an opportunity to influence the way Harvard enforces the standards it sets for students. The council voted Sunday night to approve the plan if the Faculty accepts eight amendments the council proposed. The council should revoke this provisional approval and demand real reform. The council should call for--and help draft--a law code that attempts to reconcile the competing interests of the Harvard community. Then the council should respectfully but firmly advance the code to administrators...