Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gasperi let them down in January when Pella tried to transform his caretaker government into a more permanent one. Now that the party was in trouble, many others who once sang De Gasperi's praises criticized him. They blamed the election setbacks on De Gasperi's electoral-reform law, which he himself now concedes to have been a mistake. They acknowledged the greatness of De Gasperi's 1948 triumph and admired the nobility of his character, but in retrospect were more & more inclined to question his method of governing-his cautious system of checks & balances...
...trouble with the law have passed through his home; only one has been convicted of a second criminal offense. The judge knows that his project is no substitute for an adequate home life, and in some cases the boys coming before his bench must be sent away to a reform school. But many can be helped. Says Judge Härringer: "Prophylaxis is easier and cheaper than therapeutics. The trouble with most of these children is that few of them have ever...
...Left. Olivetti runs his business in a way that shocks many Italian industrialists. By his example, he tries to demonstrate the widespread changes he feels are needed if democracy is to survive. The bankruptcy of the managerial class has gone so far, says he, that the big monopolies cannot reform, should gradually be transformed into joint stock companies owned by local communities and by such foundations as workers' and technicians' cooperatives...
Soon after the gentle people of the Maidive Islands abolished their centuries-old sultanate and elected Amin Didi their first President (TIME. Jan. 12, 1953), they began to regret it. Amin Didi was chock-full of reform plans-he wrote a new anthem to the tune of Auld Lang Syne; he abolished purdah and designed a new Mother Hubbard for women to wear; he forced the men to elect women to the legislature; he built an elaborate handicraft shop, despite the fact that rarely more than a half dozen tourists a year visit the isolated island chain...
Even more far-reaching is a threat to the companies that has been boiling up for the past few months: a program Trujillo calls land reform. Having made the gesture of turning over 59 parcels of his own sugar holdings to loyal Trujillistas, the Benefactor now wants the U.S. companies to give up part of their land to local planters, for compensation to be determined later...