Word: reform
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...apartments for low-income families; $25 million of the $80 million cost was raised from corporations, which can write off their contributions as a federal tax credit. An additional $25 million has been raised through the tax-credit program -- a little-noticed innovation tucked into the 1986 tax-reform bill -- for low- income housing in Los Angeles, Kansas City, San Francisco and about a dozen other cities...
EASY DOES IT, YOUNG MAN. Will Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, 68, eventually succeed Deng Xiaoping, 84, as China's leader? A recent spasm of economic unrest did not help his chances. Zhao reluctantly called for a slowdown in the pace of reform. But that decision is likely to slow his ascension. China's veteran military commanders will now wait to see if Zhao, once considered a shoo-in to succeed Deng, can put the economy back on course...
...month after leaving his cabinet post, former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett hasn't given up on his crusade to reform higher education...
Critics of the Bennett agenda for curriculum reform say that his program represents a return to the ethnocentricity and the narrow-mindedness that prevailed in most college core courses in the humanities half a century ago. Further, they charge, it is as politically motivated as the push for a non-Western curriculum at Stanford which the Secretary condemned...
...Reform Act closed loopholes for the rich created by the 1981 Reagan tax cut and took millions of Americans living in poverty off the taxpaying rolls. The welfare reform legislation would provide direction to a system that liberals and conservatives alike agree is in dire need of repair. If that's mere politicking...