Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stock scheme has rocked the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Though he has not been directly implicated, his approval rating plunged in December to less than 30%, the lowest level in his 14 months in office. The scandal seemed to magnify public displeasure with Takeshita's sweeping tax-reform bill, including a 3% national consumption tax, which he pushed through the Diet, Japan's parliament, in December...
...sensible approach to dealing with it. Mere slandering and name-calling does not lend credibility to the moral high ground on which critics of the final clubs claim to be standing. Quite the opposite, their moralistic approach has, if anything, undermined their attempts to steer the final clubs toward reform and has fallen short of generating intelligent discussion that would, at the very least, foster a better understanding of the final clubs and the role they play in the Harvard social community...
...Office reports an intrusion into a female freshman's room. In Hollis, a student woke up to find a man at the foot of her bed. Rather than realizing something is amiss, administrators are quite satisfied with the campus security system. It is we--the students--who ought to reform ourselves, they say. Our watchwords should be "vigilance" and "caution," according to administrators...
...vigilance and caution will not help much. The administration should not wait for more intrusions and another rape before they reform the security system. We do not need further proof that Harvard's security system is too porous to be accepted...
...public discussion" in October. More than 300,000 comments and suggestions flooded in; as a result, 58 out of 117 proposed clauses in the package of constitutional amendments and election laws were modified. Leading the legal revolt was the Baltic republic of Estonia, where the push for political reform has gone the furthest. Estonians feared that the new system would strengthen the authority of the central government and hamper efforts to achieve greater regional autonomy. In an unprecedented challenge to Moscow, the Estonian parliament rejected the constitutional amendments last month and passed a declaration of "national sovereignty." Ethnic Russians...