Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Toward Reform...
...polls show that Americans heavily favor reform. Of 40,089 U.S. physicians who answered a survey by Modern Medicine last spring, 87% favored liberalizing the abortion laws-including 49% of the Catholics. According to the National Opinion Research Center, 71% of Americans favor legal abortion if the woman's health is endangered, 56% in rape cases and 55% if there is a strong chance that the baby may have a serious defect. Conversely, 80% are against abortion for unwed girls and 83% against it for mothers who do not want more children-the main seekers of abortion...
...have recovered sufficiently from his prostate condition so that an operation may not be necessary until after the synod ends next month. Unlike an ecumenical council, which has well-defined ecclesiastical powers to legislate for the church, the synod is a purely papal creation. If Paul wants no further reform, the bishops can hardly rebel against his wishes...
...need for such reform has grown more and more obvious to experts. World trade has doubled over the past decade, but reserves to finance it have grown only 40%. Last year hoarders squirreled away almost as much gold as the world mined; with increasing industrial demand for the metal (for everything from computer diodes to the skin of Titan III), the store of gold in the free world's central banks actually dwindled for the first time in modern history. So far, the U.S. and British balance-of-payments deficits have covered the gap, but if and when...
...revised to give the Common Market veto power over all future expansion of IMF reserves and the use of IMF loans by debt-laden countries. "If we don't get our way," threatened one European finance chief, "the Americans aren't going to get any monetary reform in the foreseeable future...