Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gain, along with modest increases since 1980 when SAT scores sank to an all-time low of 890, had been widely hailed as evidence that current education reform efforts were starting to pay off in better student performance...
...Democrats need to take a stand. But only if they incorporate issues such as the environment, tax reform, economic security, and gun control into a coherent vision can they hope to recapture the affections of the voters. Trying to form a coalition of special-interest groups can no longer do the trick. Several local and state Democratic candidates have run recently with great success emphasizing workfare programs and the clean-up of hazardous-wastes. The victories of Mark Green and Bella Abzug in New York, John Lewis in Georgia, and Harriet Woods in Missouri proves that there is still...
...strongest when it emphasizes the family--the real American family, and not the Republican fantasy of the wage-earning husband with the wife who stays at home with the kids, the dog and the Cuisinart. This results in the report advocating a more flexible workplace, pro-family tax reform, and greater income security, especially for child support...
...York City's Bowery Savings Bank and former head of New York's metropolitan transportation authority: "Most people who seek the White House seek his advice and ultimately his support." Tisch was instrumental in helping preserve the deductibility of state and local income taxes in the new tax-reform bill...
Sometimes even the most ossified policy can break down under new pressures. Last April, Dean Spence announced a long overdue reform in Harvard's practice of passing over its own junior professors for tenure in favor of world class heavyweights. Three problems motivated the change. First, the traditional tenure policy has been yielding fewer and fewer top academic guns eager for the opportunity of supping at the Faculty Club and purchasing overpriced Boston real estate. Second, Harvard has become a junior faculty farm team for other universities, providing them top tenurable scholars who will often prefer to stay put when...