Word: reforming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sought almost obsessively, began with a poorly directed enthusiasm and now fulfills with somewhat erratic results. He has performed diligently, but with limited success. He has won victories, suffered defeats, made mistakes, learned from the job, built a record of some competence and of far-reaching efforts at reform occasionally interspersed by silly blunders. He has reversed a major decline in his popularity, yet he is still something of a stranger in his own party, attacked from its broad ideological wings left and right...
Much of the ambitious Carter program remains of course unfinished or, in some cases, set aside as politically and economically unfeasible. His grand schemes for welfare reform, for instance, were shunted aside in Congress and are probably dead. His promised national health care program has been scaled down because of its potentially huge costs...
Leverett House followed suit by endorsing the reform of the ACSR in a vote of 18 to three with five abstentions...
...even if the Houses do overwhelmingly support the reform of the ACSR, there is no guarantee that the advisory body will be reformed...
...whether the vacationing Bok decides to reform the ACSR or not, student opinion on Harvard's South Africa related investments, like rooftop snow, becomes more weighty and lethal with the advent of spring...