Word: reform
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...Vann, retired from the Army, was back in Viet Nam as a civilian "pacification officer" for the Agency for International Development. He opposed Westmoreland's attrition strategy because he believed it resulted in needless U.S. and Vietnamese casualties. The U.S., he argued, should reform the corrupt Saigon regime and woo the peasantry. Despite his role as gadfly, Vann rose through the system, ultimately becoming the top U.S. adviser for central Viet Nam and the first civilian, according to Sheehan, ever to command U.S. troops in wartime...
...more division. Many supporters echoed the hopes of John Edmonds, head of the General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union, that Kinnock "has won the party by his speech." But another senior union boss warned, "If Neil retreats from the gunfire of Todd and drops any part of his reform program, he'll be out as leader. Not tomorrow, not next week or next month. But before the next election...
...Stimulate investment and civilian research and development. The investment tax credit, which was eliminated in the 1986 tax-reform act, should be restored -- as long as consumption taxes are levied to make up the revenue loss. Companies should receive credits for investments not only in plant and equipment but also in human capital, like spending on worker training. Perhaps a third of the Pentagon's research and development should be gradually shifted to projects with commercial value...
General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev has moved against the military and sharpened the knife to trim the party bureaucracy in his ambitious reform programs. The key question was whether he dared to take on the third pillar of Soviet power: the security establishment. An answer of sorts came at the party plenum two weeks ago. In a blitzkrieg shake-up of the leadership, Gorbachev named KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov, 65, head of a new commission on legal reform. Deputy KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, 64, leap-frogged over two more senior officials to get Chebrikov's vacant post...
...want our markets to be productive instead of self-destructive, fundamental changes must be made. Unfortunately, a year after the near collapse of our financial system, there is virtually no sign of reform. The report on the crash from the presidential commission headed by Nicholas Brady (now Secretary of the Treasury) is a dead letter. The only result appears to be the adoption of "circuit breakers," which would temporarily halt trading during a steep market plunge. That is not a cure for the disease that brought...