Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transferring of the Chelsea schools to B.U. for 10 years marks the first time in U.S. history that a private university has run a public school system. B.U. officials hope that the plan will become a model for urban educational reform...
...willing to embrace a "multiparty system." Asked if he could coexist with the right, Villalobos responded, "Of course," but went on to say of ARENA, "After you reaffirm your legitimacy in an electoral contest in which we all participate, you have every right to turn back every reform you wish and to do with the country what you will...
...proposed in Mexico City. Cristiani is heartened by this timetable. "What happened to Mr. Duarte was that he had isolated meetings with ((the F.M.L.N.))," he said. "If one of those meetings failed, that was it." Cristiani expressed a willingness to discuss the F.M.L.N.'s proposals for judicial and electoral reform. At the same time, he shot down key elements of the F.M.L.N.'s nine-point plan put forward in Mexico, most notably the guerrillas' bid to move up legislative and municipal elections scheduled...
...into the economy." So far, though, perestroika has been a series of slogans rather than a well-structured set of programs. American Sovietologist Abraham Becker of the Rand Corp. concludes that Gorbachev came to power with a narrow view of the country's problem and what was needed to reform it. "He believed erroneously that drastic but elementary personnel changes, a shaking up of the cadres, would turn around the bureaucracy," says Becker. The Carnegie Endowment's Dimitri Simes thinks time for such tinkering is running out. "Gorbachev has to decide what kind of Soviet Union he wants, what kind...
...Gorbachev was led into fundamental errors by his own dynamism, self-confidence and impatience. Says a senior British official: "He moved on all fronts simultaneously, which has confronted him with all the country's problems at once." Many Soviet scholars regard the party bureaucracy as the main obstacle to reform and argue that Gorbachev, despite top-level housecleaning, has so far failed to sweep out conservatives and dead wood at the middle and local levels, where things get done -- or don't. Others say glasnost unleashed pent-up ethnic resentment. By attacking across the board, Gorbachev only produced confusion, resistance...