Word: reforms
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...effectiveness of the Republican slander campaign against Vice President Al Gore '69 and near-total inability of the Democrats to articulate the issues at stake. These three tragic elements combine to give working-class independents, who will swing the election, the mistaken idea that the route to education reform, environmental protection and a fair wage for a fair day's work runs through a vacuous philosophical sham termed "Compassionate Conservatism...
...from low-income families. If a school is low-performing, it will have three years to show improvement before having the school's resources turned over for parents to use. Bush's education plan increases the demands placed upon teacher success, thus offering an innovative approach to the school-reform issue...
...supports school vouchers (he favors experimentation) and campaign finance reform. He advocates public funding and the banning of political action committees (PACs) and soft money, an issue that affected his own campaign...
Hagelin sees Ralph Nader as a partner in the quest to take votes from Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore '69, but complains Nader's campaign fails to create the "broad-based independent political movement" that is the goal of his Reform Natural Law Coalition...
...that Texas Gov. George W. Bush is a candidate for the presidency and an outspoken defender of the death penalty. Yet it is unfortunate that the reports emerged in such a politically charged atmosphere, where they were liable to be interpreted as partisan attacks rather than actual calls for reform. The death penalty system in Texas--and across the nation--is broken, and regardless of the political winds, there is an urgent need to end the assembly line of executions...