Word: reformer
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...million Germans to live within a single state? This week's elections in East Germany are a reminder that the Germans will decide on their own when to unify. But the rest of the world still has a say in how unification affects NATO, European integration and Soviet reform. George Bush's position is simple and bold. He wants to keep NATO in Europe, a unified Germany in NATO, U.S. troops in Germany, a reformer in the Kremlin and a conservative in the German chancellorship...
...fledgling movement does not advocate the dismantling of either socialism or the Communist Party. But it has adopted a manifesto demanding that China end the one-party system, reform the economy, permit freedom of speech, release political prisoners and "liberate the mind and completely eradicate feudal vestiges" -- a reference to lifetime official tenures, nepotism and corruption in the regime...
...deficit, or come up with a better one," he challenged. In addition to an increase in some excise levies and in income tax rates for the wealthiest Americans, Rostenkowski called for a one-year moratorium on the indexing of tax brackets to inflation (a Reagan- era reform that protects taxpayers from being hit with ever higher rates...
...serious reform of the congressional campaign finance system is possible unless the role and influence of PAC money is dramatically reduced," said Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer. "Members of Congress must give up their dependency on PAC contributions and enact real campaign finance reform legislation in order to end the campaign money chase in Washington...
...Washington D.C.-based Common Cause, which lobbies for congressional campaign finance reform, studied a six-year period which contained three election years. The final report was issued in itemized form by state. Common Cause included all 50 states in their study and obtained information from the Federal Election Commission...