Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Council of wasting time at its conferences and complaining that it should provide funding for delegates' travel expenses, students voted to leave the group at the end of the year if these issues are not addressed. This prudent move should give the Ivy Council ample opportunity to reform. If it cannot, then the council's money would be better spent elsewhere...
...have to wait for those plums. She may bump hulls with CHARLES SCHUMER, New York's senior Senator, an aggressive press hound back home. She's received a mixed welcome from Republican Senators, who remember her haughty attitude when she was in charge of trying to get health-care reform through Congress. Majority leader TRENT LOTT huffed that she'll be "one of 100, and we won't let her forget it." But G.O.P. Senator PHIL GRAMM tells TIME, "Anybody who can move into a state and get herself elected to the Senate, I'm impressed with...
Amongst his colleagues, Ellison's name is virtually synonymous with graduate student aid reform. He lent his name to a report released in 1998 by a committee he headed. In the report, the committee advocated covering tuition for four or five years for needy students, compared to two years, the previous standard. This meant each department can give aid to the same group of students throughout their careers at GSAS...
...does show signs of cooperation, one Beltway veteran pointed out to TIME.com, there will be sharp disagreements over what issues to tackle first. "When you look at what legislation is considered ripe for bipartisan compromise, the two parties are split: The Democrats talk about coming together on campaign finance reform and a patients' bill of rights, while the Republicans want to focus on abolishing the estate tax or a ban on partial birth abortion." All issues that have garnered significant bipartisan support in the past - but not exactly the legislative trifles one might expect an evenly split Congress to tackle...
Bush vowed to forge a common agenda behind the themes of his campaign. He promised to strengthen Social Security, to preserve and expand Medicare and give due respect to the military, to reform education, and to give Americans the "tax relief they deserve...