Word: reform
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...citing the poor health that has plagued him since he underwent gallbladder surgery last August. But few East Germans doubted that Honecker had been pushed aside by a leadership increasingly nervous about the continuing exodus of refugees to the West and the growing clamor of the stay- behinds for reform at home. At the same time, the two Politburo members in charge of the economy and mass media also lost their posts, signaling that a more extensive housecleaning might be under...
...ordered choice" solution suffers from essentially the same defect. The object of housing reform is to get students who otherwise would not live in certain houses to live there, and to get the students who otherwise would live in those houses to live somewhere else. Non-ordered choice fails to do that...
...four CCA-endorsed members who sit on the council introduced a three-pronged reform package, which was referred to the council's ordinance committee for further study...
Much of the impetus for reform flowed from the fact that early next year Hungary is to have the most open balloting in the East bloc in four decades. At least a dozen parties will be competing with the Hungarian Socialist Party for the 374 seats in Parliament. Reformers within the Communist ranks contended that without a fresh image, they stand no chance at the polls. In four recent by-elections, the Democratic Forum, which has only 20,000 registered members, in contrast to the 700,000 claimed by the Communist Party, has easily defeated candidates...
Nonetheless, the two sides are still far apart on such basic issues as the pace of change and who will speak for the black majority. The clergymen handed De Klerk a 13-point agenda for reform demanding that the government lift the state of emergency and free the hundreds of remaining political prisoners, and then within six months abolish apartheid laws and begin negotiations on a new South African constitution with the A.N.C. "If we were to get that kind of commitment," Tutu said, "we would be ready to say to our friends, 'Put your sanctions programs on hold...