Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrations coincided with the visit of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the reform-minded Soviet president, for East Germany's 40th anniversary...
...Federal Government has taken a few steps to make special-needs adoption more attractive. In 1980 Congress passed a sweeping reform of adoption and child-welfare laws that, among other things, offered for the first time a federal stipend -- $200 to $300 a month -- to some adoptive parents of special-needs children. Just last month President Bush proposed legislation to make them eligible for a $3,000 tax break...
When State President F.W. de Klerk speaks of his vision of a new South Africa, the country's voteless 26 million blacks can be forgiven for being skeptical. The reform policies of De Klerk's predecessor, P.W. Botha, unleashed disappointment and nearly three years of violent unrest before grinding to a halt. But one of the most vocal critics of De Klerk's reluctance to abolish apartheid is a prominent Afrikaner who sat only a few feet behind him on inauguration day last month: his elder brother Willem...
...largely uneducated and rigidly dogmatic. They resist the creative solutions of younger technocrats and refuse to countenance the kind of political renovation that might stanch the flow of tens of thousands of refugees each year. Like the Chinese, they continue to believe that economic miracles are possible without political reform. "The Old Guard was good for war," says a Foreign Ministry official, "but not for peacetime Viet...
...capital-gains cut will undermine tax reform and ultimately boost the deficit, but Washington cannot say no to any kind of giveback. -- There is less than meets the eye to the rash of arms-control proposals. -- In Greenfield, Iowa, a newspaper marks its centennial and a rural community worries about its future...