The finance minister, Grzegorz Kolodko, is doing better than markets expected but will struggle to push through the reform of public finances that Poland sorely needs.
We can find savings through the reform of our entitlement programs and -- reforms that strengthen those programs for the future and for future generations, make sure that those vital, vital programs are strong and providing services to not just this generation of seniors but to generations into the future.
Lately, however, voters and Congress have veered off message, electing a Republican senator in Massachusetts and threatening to drive a stake through the health reform Mr Obama had put at the heart of his first term.
For a start, it was the prime minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto, who was responsible for pushing through the fiscal reform law which makes it difficult to fund tax cuts.
As recently as 2006, the government drove through a reform of the pensions rules that simplified a notoriously complex system.
In the Lords peers continue to wade through the detail of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill - at the moment the committee stage seems to consist mostly of tidying up the ramifications of their removal of the central proposal in the Bill, the elected Police Commissioners.
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Reinvigorate the rule of law through tort reform and get the Federal Reserve on a rational track again, and the economy can still leap from strength to new strength.
On Tuesday, Republican members of the House Oversight Committee demanded the SEC turn over documents and communications with the Obama administration and media outlets like The New York Times, accusing the SEC of filing the charges as a political move to help push the financial reform legislation through the Senate.
MPs, the government pushed through the double-jeopardy reform as part of the 2003 Criminal Justice Act.
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That is why stalemate on the budget may be the trigger that elevates achieving economic growth through monetary reform to the top of the political agenda.
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Chile especially has pushed through the sorts of reform that are conspicuously absent in Asia.
We have taken steps through the SSRB to reform MPs' pension arrangements.
Mr Koizumi, the prime minister, desperately wants to push this reform through the upper house this summer, after winning in the lower house by only five votes earlier this month.
What I will say is that the parameters of what -- a significantly sized deal are clear, and they include spending cuts, reductions in defense spending, savings through entitlement reform, savings through the tax code.
Following on that, there is frustration now I believe with the efforts by some to roll back the protections the President fought so hard to put into place through the Wall Street reform act that was passed and signed into law.
I've written about health care for two decades, starting from my native Iowa where I covered the presidential campaign bus rides of Bill and Hillary Clinton through the Hawkeye state talking health reform and the economy.
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The Council on Foreign Relations recently produced a report that looks at education reform through the lens of national security.
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The referendum was held only because, under pressure from the League, Mr Berlusconi rammed the reform through parliament by a simple majority, rather than strike a deal with the opposition to secure a two-thirds majority in each parliamentary chamber.
Now, keep in mind this was a CBO that, while we were going through the process of health care reform, was the be all and end all of the scorekeeper.
Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, the senior Republican on the Senate Energy Committee, spoke about the challenges of getting Bush's energy reform package through the Democrat-controlled Senate in the fall.
Ms Murray added that in the restricted tim she could not "go through all the horrors of this reform".
In its prior corporate strategy announcement, Sony stated that through the combination of these structural reform measures and business portfolio realignment it expected to reduce headcount across the entire Sony Group, primarily in the electronics business, by approximately 10, 000 in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013 ("FY12"), including approximately 3, 000 to 4, 000 in Japan.
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We will have health care reform through the House and through the Senate.
The young governor pushed through the state legislature a massive budget reform package aimed at righting the fiscal ship of the Badger State.
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The Speaker of the House identified, he said, up to a trillion dollars that you could gain just from the wealthy through tax reform, closing loopholes and exemptions.
We would not be at a point where we were a couple of votes away, not in people but in sequencing, to getting health care reform through the Senate.
So this is not done for anything other than a few extra days to work on getting health care reform through the process, as well as keeping that important trip.
But the fact that the Public Safety Personnel System is in terrible financial shape convinced Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams and Senate President Russell Pearce (a retired sheriff) to spearhead reform through the legislature this year.
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Because an educated workforce is essential to a 21st century global economy, we've launched a competitive Race to the Top fund through the Recovery Act to reform our schools and raise achievement, especially in math and science.
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