Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besvinick said only the reform establishing a more balanced student-faculty ratio on the committee actually helps students. The legislation provides for six student and six Faculty seats, plus an additional Faculty member who will preside as chairman and cast the deciding vote in case of a tie. Previous membership rules required eight Faculty members and six students...
...freshman coalition of club members had earlier announced plans to "reform" the club. Freshman members said last night that they had since "decided they were in basic disagreement" with the club's members...
...days before and after the Ayatullah's return, Prime Minister Bakhtiar was almost compulsively busy: delivering lengthy radio and television speeches, introducing sweeping reform measures in parliament. To some extent, that burst of activity was a charade; almost daily, members of the Majlis (lower house) resigned in deference to the Ayatullah's commands. Said one European diplomat in Tehran: "Bakhtiar's performance is a pure piece of acting, but there's nothing behind it. I can't think of anything he's in charge...
...three-hour Thursday evening meeting, the assembly passed resolution after resolution: condemning next year's college cost increase, supporting reform of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, and calling for a campus-wide demonstration to protest the University's refusal to rename the Englehard Library at the Kennedy School...
...will be how to give the Shah sufficient support to preserve his present pro-Western policy without encouraging excessive demands for aid." With the massive oil deposits and valuable intelligence sites made available in Iran growing in importance the U.S. came to exert little pressure for reform and the Shah became less and less susceptible...