Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenet of Gorbachev's reform policies athome that the Soviet Union must demonstrate to theWest it is eager to serve as a cooperative partnerin world economic development and dispel theKremlin's "enemy image" of the Cold...
BOSTON--Standing between the flags of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at a State House rally yesterday, Chinese immigrants--most speaking through interpreters--urged the Legislature to reform unemployment insurance practices...
Some proponents of reform go so far as to suggest that student athletes be paid, thereby ending what they see as the pretense of amateurism. Others insist that all athletic scholarships be scrapped. Senator Bill Bradley, a former college and pro-basketball star, has proposed federal legislation requiring that schools disclose their student athletes' graduation rates. It's a solid idea -- one the NCAA should have taken the lead in long...
...fall's election gave neither Likud nor Labor a clear majority, each considered forming a coalition with ultra-Orthodox religious parties. The price would have been high: giving the fanatic religious groups exclusive power over the religious conversion of immigrants to Israel. By implication, the legitimacy of Conservative and Reform Jews would have been undermined. Outraged protests from abroad helped torpedo that idea and forced creation of another inaptly named "unity" government joining Likud and Labor. It also made it easier for Diaspora Jews to vent their unease over other issues. Says Alexander Schindler, head of the U.S. Reform movement...
...them to be happy. The procedure by which their slate of candidates was chosen had been widely criticized as both undemocratic and politically biased. In a series of "pre-electoral" meetings, the academy's ruling presidium had narrowed a list of 121 nominees to 23, eliminating such proponents for reform as space scientist Roald Sagdeyev and human-rights activist Andrei Sakharov...