Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market. The stock would merely be bought by an investor who, noticing the low price of the stock compared to its earning potential, would snap it up as a bargain. This stockowner may well be less scrupulous than Harvard; he might not trouble to lobby at stockholder meetings fro reform of company practices in South Africa...
...Methodist seminary, eleven universities, 19 cities and, under an order by Democratic Governor Toney Anaya, the entire state of New Mexico. Also endorsing the movement: the American Baptist, Presbyterian and United Methodist churches, United Church of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the rabbinical arms of Conservative and Reform Judaism...
...Duvalier-era atrocities and wounded 20. The violence sparked demands for the resignation of the National Council of Government that has ruled since President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fled in February. Last week the military- backed junta, which has been criticized for its plodding efforts at reform, took steps to mollify the volatile mood of its countrymen...
...close of his remarks, Jacob presented a three-pronged plan to correct social inequality. The U.S. must provide "a universal employment and training system, educational reform, and a social welfare program stressing work and development," Jacob told the crowd...
...Gorbachev is demanding better economic performance from his allies not through any drastic reform but simply through attacking the familiar abuses of the Communist systems: waste, corruption, sclerotic bureaucracy and poor workmanship. Instead of policy and leadership changes, $ Eastern Europe's regimes are under marching orders to take the slack out of the existing economic systems. Central planning remains, but better and younger economic management is expected to bring improved results...