Word: reformer
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...parent of two children in the public schools, Walser wrote the annual Parent's Guide to Cambridge Schools (1997, 1998, 1999). She hopes to reform middle school programs, reallocate funds toward classrooms and students and away from mid-level administration, and do a better job of evaluating and supporting teachers...
...Harvard branch of the organization, the Appleseed Center for Electoral Reform, utilizes the resources of the law school and its students to try to improve aspects of the electoral process, such as campaign finance...
...same time, Bradley's poverty speech was notable for some things he didn't say. He has been an outspoken critic of the 1996 welfare-reform bill, arguing that forcing welfare mothers into the work force "cuts the bonds between mother and child" and that without subsidized child care and health coverage, too many could fall through the cracks. Yet in his speech, he did not call for a repeal of the time limits or work requirements. Gore seized on the omission. "He didn't propose to repeal it, did he?" he said to TIME. "It tells me that upon...
...firm (1998 sales: $2.2 billion) ahead of those of such giants as Coca-Cola, Exxon and Bank of America. Most of Fruit's plums go to Republicans, including $265,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, run by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the principal opponent of campaign finance reform...
Senator McCain, as the acknowledged champion of campaign finance reform, made the most of the night to consolidate his position in second place, hammering the special-interests-control-Washington theme while at the same time burnishing his centrist credentials by affirming his tolerance for pro-choice positions within the GOP and for gay rights. Steve Forbes basked in the fact that his flat tax had become something of a conventional wisdom among Republicans, Gary Bauer tried to claim the Buchanan legacy as the choice of the blue-collar conservative, while Senator Orrin Hatch and Alan Keyes struggled to find signature...