Mr. Vallas, working with a state-appointed school board made up of five members of the Connecticut business and education community, has already "significantly reduced a large budget gap, made significant leadership changes, reviewed all the schools and is laying out a new direction of reforms, " said Robert Trefry, the school board's current chairman.

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The basic direction of these reforms is to increasingly transform the water sector into market-based and commercial operations, and a resulting commodification of water.

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Today, Islam is a widely divergent institution with no clear sense of direction, and with an equally confusing patchwork of reforms underway.

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There are a number of reforms that could move us in this direction, including allowing people to buy health insurance policies offered in states other than their own.

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The survey gives ammunition to those who think that after a decade of controversial educational reforms, Britain is finally heading in the right direction.

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Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson likened the proposed reforms to a "baby step in the right direction", accusing ministers of dragging their heels on the issue.

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Firms are being squeezed, in one direction by the country's debilitating recession, and in the other by regulatory reforms that punish many of the old, wasteful ways.

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Yet unease is growing about the monarchy's direction, particularly its reluctance to enact constitutional reforms that would reduce the monarch's power in favour of elected institutions such as the parliament.

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