Word: reformer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would like to echo Elliott's sentiments by adding the developments in Northern Ireland to the list of Blair's achievements. The peace process needed a British leader who could push for reform without looking over his shoulder to see how many seats made up his minority government. Blair may be seen as an "unpopular failure" in his country for his participation in the war in Iraq, but I want to thank him for putting Northern Ireland at the top of his agenda. I have always felt that he didn't do so to earn political capital but that...
...their workers, or pay a percentage of their payroll into a fund for the uninsured. But he insisted that the political climate around the issue has changed dramatically since then, and that businesses are far more open to the idea. "Rising costs have caused many more businesses to back reform," he said in a speech at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City, "and in states from Massachusetts to California, Democratic and Republican governors and legislatures have been way ahead of Washington in passing increasingly bolder intitiatives to cover the uninsured and cut costs...
...safeguard the privacy of the CORI subjects, so that this obviously embarrassing and damaging information about them would get into the hands of only people with a clear need to know the information,” according to a report by Ernest Winsor of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.Over the past decade, however, employers in all sectors of the job market have used CORIs to indiscriminately deny jobs both to former criminals and the accused (persons who are acquitted of charges still have those charges added to CORI). Record holders are also denied public housing, loans, and spots in colleges...
...candidacy could also pose a challenge to freshman Councillor Craig A. Kelley, a frequent critic of both City Manager Robert W. Healy, Cambridge’s chief executive, and the other councillors. Kelley and Seidel share much of the same political base: middle-class, progressive voters concerned about education reform and environmental issues...
...fresh off a stint as associate dean of undergraduate education. Before and since, Verba has chaired a litany of committees on sensitive Faculty and University issues—including the faculty advisory committee for this year’s presidential search and groups dealing with Core Curriculum reform, calendar reform, and diversity faculty hiring.Darnton, meanwhile, assumes the post with less administrative experience and less inside knowledge of Harvard than Verba had 23 years ago. Until now, the top administrative position Darnton has held according to his C.V. is an eight-year tenure as director of the Program in European Cultural...