And I support it, provided that we do it hand in hand with broader reforms that protect benefits and protect patients and protect the American people.

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Under its second bailout program, approved this year, Greece has agreed to implement a series of austerity measures and undertake broader reforms to make its economy more competitive.

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Under its second bailout program, approved last month, Greece has agreed to implement a series of austerity measures and undertake broader reforms to make its economy more competitive.

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Under its second bailout program, approved earlier this year, Greece has agreed to implement a series of austerity measures and undertake broader reforms to make its economy more competitive.

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Even his allies agree that Mr Erdogan made a strategic blunder by passing the headscarf law instead of blending it into a package of broader reforms embodied in a new constitution.

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And that is why, through this fee and broader reforms that we seek, our goal is not to punish Wall Street firms, but rather to prevent the abuse and excess that nearly caused the collapse of many of these firms and the financial system itself.

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But too little thought has been given to what this will mean for the course of the country's broader economic reforms.

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The new measures include getting spending under control, raising taxes to fund the necessary spending and eventually initiating a broader range of reforms to spread the benefits of growth to more people.

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Mr Koizumi and Mr Takenaka made much of the decision to wrap the banking reforms into a broader reform programme which would also tackle the problem of deflation.

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And I look forward to consulting with Congress on these reforms, as well as broader export control reform efforts.

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These reforms are a first step to necessary, broader ones.

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On a broader regional level, Obama stressed the importance of economic development to accompany political reforms.

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Obama made clear that he still wants a broader deficit-reduction agreement with Republicans that includes spending cuts, some entitlement reforms and increased revenue from eliminating some tax breaks.

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