Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...understatement to say Nader's not likely to sit in the Oval Office, but his campaign could be important. Last week a poll showed Nader getting 5.7%--versus 3.6% for likely Reform Party nominee Pat Buchanan. Nader scored close to 10% in the West--an omen for Democrats who fear that he could siphon California votes from Al Gore and throw the state to George W. Bush. Nader plays especially well with the elderly over 70--worried about prescription-drug benefits--and with the young. "He's retro cool," says John Zogby, who conducted the poll. "The same...
...last Monday, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) passed their budget without any mention of an extra $450,000 that top officials said it needed to open the school promptly and successfully. This decision by the Cambridge School Committee is short-sighted and could doom the school's reform efforts to failure...
...Seattle has not disappeared. Instead, it has grown stronger, picking two new targets that before would never have imagined themselves the objects of public vilification. Although the calls by some protestors to disband the IMF and World Bank are unjustified, the real question is whether the institutions can reform themselves so as to give greater consideration to the interests of the global poor--and whether the developed world can display the political will to do the same...
...complied by Syracuse University Researches indicates that those lines are probably getting shorter--and it's not because taxpayers are becoming any more punctual. Congressional defunding of the IRS' auditing budget, combined with a dwindling staff and a series of complex new regulations enacted by the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 have led to decreases in auditing and less enforcement of penalties for delinquent taxpayers. It's a cheater's dream come true...
...course, in pointing to China's deteriorating human rights situation over the past year, particularly in respect of repression of religious activities, the State Department may risk raising questions about the basic premise of U.S. "engagement" with China - that trade with the West and economic reform will have a liberalizing effect on Chinese society. Then again, even if Washington had succeeded in orchestrating a nasty wrist-slap of Beijing by a U.N. talk shop, it might not have significantly altered the prospects for passing the China trade deal on Capitol Hill. After all, while they cite concerns over human rights...