Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before a crowd of 300 Wednesday at the town hall here, McCain put forward his plan to reform the current campaign finance system, which he called "nothing less than an elaborate influence peddling scheme...
...Clearly this is a sport with one of the worst reputations around," says TIME sports senior editor Bill Saporito. "Anything that will move reform along is welcome." Unlike other major sports, which have national organizations and a unified set of standards, professional boxing functions in a world of individual contractors overseen by state boxing regulators with very uneven records. "Boxing is a segmented, cottage industry," says Saporito, and that leaves it wide open to abuses. The latest legislation, which is named after boxing great Muhammad Ali, has a very powerful Senate backer, Arizona Republican John McCain. But it faces tough...
Although he holds office hours about once per month, he rarely steps into College affairs, preferring to allow underlings to handle all crises and many long-term matters, from murder-suicides to protests to public service reform...
...choice but to build a big coalition, work with the Democrats and generally conduct himself in a way that offered a perfect contrast to the eye gouging going on in Washington. Together Bush and his coalition would pass the biggest tax cut in the state's history, reform its tort-liability system and boost reading scores enough to give him bragging rights on a national scale...
...salesman in his Popemobile is no less conditional. The enormous charisma of the man has made zealots of the converted and converts of the heathen, but John Paul II has brooked no heretics. There is some debate over the pope's adherence to or deconstruction of Vatican II, a reform council convened in the early '60s (at which young Bishop Wojtyla first made his mark by drafting a document declaring the primacy of religious freedom, even for non-Catholics). But it is impossible to call John Paul II anything other than a conservative. He does not take to new currents...