Word: reforming
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...have been more untimely: the country has been troubled by new outbreaks of unrest. South Korea's economic boom has brought not only prosperity, but also a fresh appetite for long-denied political freedoms. Last month the new tensions between Park's authoritarianism and the hunger for reform erupted in an open revolt by Park's political opposition and an explosion of student riots...
Burger's judicial philosophy is not easily discerned. He does not have a broad vision of the court as an instrument for social reform. Nor is he particularly concerned with "judicial restraint" or the limits of the court's power. Rather, observes Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis J. Hutchinson, "Burger votes the way he thinks a right-thinking person would vote. He applies middle-class values and his own common sense." The Chiefs opinion in Wisconsin vs. Yoder, which ruled that the state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example...
...Western-educated and oriented African and Colored elite which can act as a "third force" between die-hard Afrikaaners and the forces of national liberation led by the African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress. The U.S. government and business interests have wanted for a long time to reform apartheid just enough to stabilize it and maintain the enormous superprofits extracted from the black South African workforce. Harvard's plan plays right into this neo-colonialist strategy, by supplying partners with black forces to complete the deal. Bishop Muzorewa of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia has his lookalikes in South Africa...
...junta promised to hold elections, possibly as early as next year, and to use the huge coffee and cotton plantations that occupy the bulk of the country's arable acreage for land reform. It ordered an investigation into the fate of 276 people who "disappeared" during Romero's reign. It pledged to form close ties with Nicaragua's new revolutionary government and to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. The junta also begged El Salvador's leftist guerrillas to lay down their arms and join in building a "just society...
...then he shot down one of our proposals--tutorial legislation--at the Faculty Council meeting," Henderson recollects. Crompton concedes he went to "singularly few" CUE meetings, explaining he was otherwise engaged "with an enormous number of commitments." (He added he did not recall specifically the debate on tutorial reform. "Is that where they wanted more tutorials?" he asked...