The road to reform is paved with land mines, many of them put there by lobbyists.
The rest of Latin America has concluded that encouraging the regime down the road to reform is better than stopping it.
As Thailand and others pressure Vientiane to open up, Hanoi leans on it to keep the communist faith - and Laos lurches to and fro along the road to reform.
In reality, the biggest barrier to state action is Uncle Sam, and the fastest road to reform might simply be for him to get out of the way.
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If adopted, they can also serve to move China forward on the road to systemic reform and respect for individual liberties.
But if his past dozen years in Washington is prologue to the Heritage Foundation of tomorrow, it could be disastrous for the GOP, leading to a further narrowing of its appeal and the road to real fiscal reform.
Today, we mark an important milestone on the road to health insurance reform and higher education reform.
"This is a significant breakthrough on the road to health care reform, one that will make the difference in the lives of many older Americans, " Obama said at the White House.
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Over the weekend, business groups and organized labor signaled a major breakthrough on the road to comprehensive immigration reform when they announced they had finally struck a deal on guest worker visas, a major obstacle.
How she does in office could help determine whether the resource-rich country of 60 million, also known as Burma, continues down the road of reform after it began opening to the outside world over the past year.
They've lost their job because we had a risky financial system of which the President wants financial regulatory reform to lay down rules of the road so it never happens again.
The President believes that one of the ways to put our economy back on that strong foundation is to have strong rules for the road with financial reform.
That's a pretty reasonable, middle-of-the-road, common-sense approach to both tax reform and entitlement reform.
He said he would have by now put forward a plan to reform Medicare and Social Security, because he pointed out they're on the road to bankruptcy.
This was the first step in a much-needed national consultation process to draw a road map for educational reform.
If anything, the fact that his support was not more conditional on Yeltsin's actual performance on democratic and free market reform will probably contribute to a less satisfactory turn of events down the road.
Rather than demanding actual Palestinian reform and cessation of terror, the Orwellian road map calls for the Palestinians to regurgitate past statements to the effect that terrorism is a bad thing and declare that they plan to reform.
Nor is it necessarily true that anyone counseling a lengthy public conversation on Medicare and Social Security reform running up to a presidential election is timidly kicking the can down the road to avoid the subject.
Welfare reform provides us with a road map for how to get there, and the states are ready to lead the way.
On the issue you raised in the beginning, the President signed into law a Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law that puts rules of the road in place to help prevent another financial crisis -- a crisis, by the way, that cost millions of American jobs -- and this act includes the strongest consumer protections in American history.
Nobody here seems to subscribe to what several of those economists have come up with for the latest road bump on passing health care reform.
In this circumstance, it's clear and we have said in the outlining of the policy that with all of our regulatory reform efforts there would be transition so that everyone can adjust to what the rules of the road are.
That's followed by a ten minute rule bill from the Lib Dem John Leetch on Road Safety - and then it's on to consideration of the latest set of Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill - with peers still digging their heels in over the proposed under-occupancy penalty for Housing Benefit and the Universal Credit.
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