Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place in the world for production of granulated sugar, butter, woolen fabrics, metal-cutting machines, iron ore, coke, cement, reinforced concrete and timber. Obviously, the present changes were not caused by the painful sputter of the Soviet economic engine. Nor have the Communists seen advantages in capitalist methods. The reform means the transition to policy that conforms to the Soviet Union's present possibilities. By abolishing the economic councils and setting up ministries for separate industries, the Soviet Union envisages not the "tightening of the planning bureaucracy" but a scientific approach to planned management, more correct...
...these measures cannot be implemented unless Wilson increass his majority in Commons and solidifies his position within the party. To impose the unpopular restraints which will be necessary for Britain's economic reform, Wilson will need more than a mere three vote margin. He cannot rely on the extraordinary combination of good luck and enthusiasm that enabled Labour to govern in 1965. His backbenchers are tired of the midnight votes and the continual fear of surprise defeat...
...incumbent, Gartland had been expected slip back into office amidst the general clamor for the status quo. The Wednesday newspapers blamed the loss on his affiliation with a reform group, the Citizens for Boston Schools. The citizens backed four candidates besides Gartland, all of whom lost after managing to get on the final ballot. The introduction of this reform slate crystallized the racial problem as a political issue...
...being reelected Mayor. He has been fond of citing Fiorello La Guardia as his spiritual predecessor; it is only prudent to note that La Guardia tended to receive smaller majorities each time he ran, and he had larger majorities than Lindsay to begin with. (John Purrey Mitchell, an earlier reform mayor, failed to win reelection entirely.) Whatever the success of his programs, the new Mayor will certainly receive plenty of adulation from the Herald Tribune, Times, Time, etc., but New York in 1969 will still be a Democratic city, and Lindsay may not face as vulnerable an opponent as Abraham...
...would be E+ and E-. He entered office with a 35-point program, got the Democratic majorities to give him 18 of the measures he sought and substantial portions of six others. His program emphasized increased spending for education, welfare and research coupled with inducements for industrial expansion and reform of an archaic, patronage-ridden administrative structure...