Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost all delegates at the conference reviled the Khmer Rouge, which was routed in a Vietnamese invasion in early 1979 after its fighters killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in a revolution to reform the country into an agrarian commune...
...city is also deeply divided over a binding ballot referendum that would drastically reform the city's rent control laws...
What this adds up to, says Ramseur, is a vigorous shakeup of the city's Plan E form of government, which was instituted in the 1940s to curb corruption and political patronage. It was these reform efforts that led to the creation...
...obvious that the Core needs reform. It doesn't work. With a very few notable exceptions, professors don't want to teach the classes, students don't want to take the classes. But I'd rather have six more Core requirements than one "Western Civ" class. I'd rather double my science requirements than be told I am about to read the "Great Books...
Will the "revolution from below" accelerate Gorbachev's ambitious plans for reform or tear the country apart? -- A breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet negotiations over the elimination of chemical weapons heralds progress on the thorny verification issue. -- Fighting at breathtaking altitudes, Indians and Pakistanis remain locked in an icy stalemate over a Himalayan boundary...