Word: reforms
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Campaign-finance reform has emerged as an issue during the budding presidential race. Three of the four leading candidates are for it; one is against. McCain has made limiting campaign contributions his defining issue, although the Arizona Republican has accepted contributions from corporations seeking favors from his Commerce committee. Bill Bradley has also spoken out for reform, calling for public financing of elections. Vice President Gore, although involved in the Clinton Administration's 1996 fund-raising scandals, also advocates publicly funded campaigns. Only Texas Governor George W. Bush favors the status...
...delighted to have surrogates push this kind of attack on his behalf. He's getting help from groups like the National Right to Life Committee, which is running radio ads in conservative South Carolina markets claiming McCain wouldn't be "a strongly pro-life President." (Americans for Tax Reform, which ran a TV commercial in New Hampshire that morphed Bill Clinton's face into McCain's, is considering running a similar spot in South Carolina.) While McCain allies in the pro-life movement point to a consistently pro-life record (he voted in favor of parental consent and the Hyde...
...reversed its position after the district agreed to finish negotiations on both the main teachers contract, which expired more than five months ago, and the effects of the school reform proposal that passed last night by Feb. 29. The district had initially opposed incorporating the restructuring issues into their ongoing talks with...
...later changed her vote to "yes," saying that she did not want to block reform...
...month after Dartmouth College released a proposals that would radically reform its residential life, the Hanover, N.H. campus is still searching for a new sense of social identity...