Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three years since his Liberal Party upset the graft-ridden Nacionalista regime of Carlos Garcia, Macapagal has tried to create a "New Era" in the Philippines. He eliminated corruption in the higher reaches of government, stabilized the peso, passed a much needed land-reform bill to break up the vast estates that date from the days of Spanish rule...
Specifically, however right the report is about administrative reform, its first responsibility should have been to redefine the goals of General Education and explain the means for attaining them. But it is here that the report does not confront its task with sufficient candor and commits two errors, one of omission, one of commission...
...this issue is crucial, because Romney's list of accomplishments is astonishingly small. Romney could persuade the heavily Republican legislature to fulfill few of the campaign promises made in 1962. Romney was even less successful than his Democratic predecessor in his efforts to enact a badly needed tax reform. governor John Swainson's bill made it to the floor of the State Senate and almost passed, while Romney's bill died in committee...
...contest has the makings of a race as lopsided as Stuart Hughes's campaign against Ted Kennedy. Day has a magnetic manner and a good program of social reform working for him. The Ninth also holds more than half of the state's Negro population. But Negroes account for ony 12.8 percent of the District's voters. McCormack's is the most Irish of all American districts, with first or second generation immigrants alone accounting for 11.6 percent of the population. Well over 50 percent are descendents of the 19th century deluge...
...reform--which affects Fine Arts 13; Natural Sciences 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10; Humanities 1, 2, 5, and 6; and Social Sciences 2, 3, and 8--will thus eliminate the early-morning vigils that have marked Saturday sectioning meetings each semester. These meetings will continue to be held, however, for courses with unlimited enrollments...