Word: reform
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Thornburgh, who served as governor for two terms, will leave office on January 20. During his time as governor, he was outspoken on several major economic issues. He was an early supporter of tax reform and of the mandatory balanced budget act. He also favored abolishing federal income tax deductions for state and local taxes, a move which would aid low-tax states such as Pennsylvania...
...community here in Cambridge. Many are worried, however, that unless the students are well-organized, they won't have much impact on the policy decisions of Communist Party leaders. Others fear that these marches, which began late last year, could influence the Party to reverse steps made toward political reform...
...Objectvely, the student demonstrators are good for reformers in the Party because the reformers can say, `Look. If we don't do more about political reform, the students and the general public will resist our administration. They will reject cooperation with the government," says Ding Xuelian, a sociology graduate student who was a Red Guard during China's decade-long Cultural Revolution...
...political reform was seen as an end in itself--and not just a means to economic reform--by Deng and other leaders of the Party. And just recently, authorities have emphasized the implementation of a constitution which gives people the right to go to the streets, to protest, to spell out opinions," he explains. "So this is a way for students to try to prove their constitutional rights...
...think that there must be many people in China who are worried that if the students go too far the state will crack down. The masses are probably pleased with the general drift [toward reform] but fear the students could provoke a reprisal," Harvard's Schwartz says...