Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major, perhaps insurmountable, obstacle to reform is the American belief that no one should get something for nothing. In fact, there are relatively few able bodied men on welfare (.7% of the total), and there is little evidence that very many men would stay on welfare if they could get a decent job. Yet proponents of income supplements ought to concede that the plans might indeed make things easier for the lazy. A potentially superior system ought not to be rejected because of possible or even likely abuses; but the whole idea is likely to run counter to the American...
...people involved, but The System that is at fault. It may be getting a bit tire-some to hear it, but boredom doesn't change matters any. The international monetary system has weathered--just barely--three major crises in the past year, and the prospects for fundamental reform seem scarcely brighter now than they were 12 months...
...group, which calls itself the Student Initiative Coalition, supports the Afro-American Association of Students' demand for a Department of Afro-American Studies and an increase in the number of black professors. The coalition also calls for "immediate reform or abolition" of the present grading system...
Sacrificing Sovereignty. "The No. 1 theme for 1969 must be monetary reform," says West Germany's Economics Minister, Karl Schiller. "As long as every nation pursues a different economic policy, there will be ever recurring speculations and danger of an explosion of the monetary system...
...moment, most Nixon advisers lean toward quiet consultation in the clubby fraternity of central bankers and treasury officials as a more promising approach. Though the Nixon camp is committed to no specific program for monetary reform, any effort would include debate on the means...