Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear to me, as it should be to all students at this university, that disciplinary reform is an absolute necessity. The Ad Board as it is currently structured is inconsistent with all of the principle of justice that this state and this country are built on. If the government can give us a fair shake, can't Harvard do the same? Students fear the Ad Board-they see it as more of am execitioner than as a disciplinary body. Is this really what we want at a supposedly liberal and "enlightened" university like Harvard? In addition to structural reform, sentences...
...legislature, Bachrach has advocated rent control, comparable-worth pay, minority, women's, and gay rights, and increased government funding for health care. He also served on the Senate Rules Reform Committee that led to the 1985 adoption of new procedures for the body...
Galvin called Kennedy's approach to defense budget cuts "Childish at best" in a recent interview, and said he supported a tax reform that would institute a minimum corporate tax and increase revenues without an across-the-board increase...
...focusing on the need to "relearn how to be a woman." Her claim echoes other Third World feminists who call for a return to a socio-economic basis for feminism; most important, this claim points out the viability of a movement grounded in marginality as a strategy of reform...
Botha confined the remainder of his speech to summarizing the government's plans for racial reform. He promised to restore South African citizenship to blacks who live within South Africa but whose citizenship previously had been assigned to one of four "independent" tribal homelands. He also proposed extending to blacks in urban townships the right to buy, instead of merely rent, their own homes. He affirmed that the government will issue an identity document to South Africans of all races, replacing the "passes" that blacks are currently required to carry at all times...