Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard officials are worried that several tax reform proposals soon to be discussed by the House Ways and Means Committee would seriously damage the University's fund-raising efforts...
Mills continued: "When I talk about tax reform, I am trying to establish greater equity in the law, greater simplification of the law, greater neutrality in its effect upon business decisions. I am trying to make it easier to administer, and, from the taxpayer's point of view, easier to comply with." He added: "Anybody who enjoys some preferential treatment should be required to come to the Congress periodically and make his case before the public...
Next month Stevenson and his reform friends are carrying the battle to Chicago, where a special election is being held to fill six vacancies on the 50-man city council. Independent Democrats will challenge machine-backed candidates in five of the six races. They have reasonable hopes of winning two seats, with Fred Hubbard, 39, a black youth worker running in a largely Negro ward, and William Singer, 28, a lawyer who campaigned for Robert Kennedy and is running in a well-to-do Near North Side ward...
...disturbances began last October with student protests over educational conditions. Since then they have developed into massive demonstrations against Ayub's regime, with charges of corruption, nepotism and incompetence as well as demands for constitutional reform and restoration of civil liberties...
Ayub's most significant move, however, was his offer to discuss constitutional reform with the opposition in the Democratic Action Committee, a loose alliance of eight conservative parties that have been promoting the anti-government campaign. Their demands include a return to the parliamentary system under which Pakistan was ruled before Ayub's bloodless takeover in 1958 and also the abolition of the present presidential election system. Within that Ayub-inspired framework, the President is chosen by 120,000 popularly elected "basic democrats." The opposition charges that the system is susceptible to government patronage and pressure and thus...