The government has also pledged not to reform Poland's job-killing and bureaucratic labour code.
New Jersey was our poster child for how not to reform health insurance.
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Mr Hollande is not suggesting slower fiscal adjustment to smooth the path of reform: he is proposing not to reform at all.
They're not running to reform education or to provide health care for America's seniors.
The military, long one of the chief beneficiaries of the Mubarak regime, is not eager to reform.
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Republicans do not want to reform Social Security without some Democratic support.
As I have written previously, it is not possible to reform taxes unless the reformers first agree on how much the new revenue code is supposed to collect.
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"They expect this parliament to not only advance reform but to accelerate the pace of change, " Mr Ban said.
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The solution, then, is not to derail immigration reform or find some other way to slow down Hispanic political participation.
For all the talk of aspirations, voters do not seem to connect reform with progress.
It's not easy to achieve reform of the tax code, spending on infrastructure, and progress on green energy.
But they say that the government is not committed to serious reform and is continuing to drag its feet.
Even then the two months between the election and the fiscal cliff would not be enough to reform taxes and entitlements.
At the same time the ECB and Germany might refuse to step in, because they do not want countries to evade reform.
The opposition Socialists, for their part, are careful not to oppose pension reform in principle - just the confrontational way the government is going about it.
Mr Sharif's boldness is not confined to constitutional reform.
But it is not the route to reform.
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It shows that Obama is not open to entitlement reform that involves any significant reduction in spending, and in a second term will just seek to increase taxes to finance the still further enormous runup in federal spending due to runaway entitlements.
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The States decided in March to conduct another review, however Ms Crowe said this should not be allowed to delay reform of the scrutiny process.
But even these qualifications do not undermine the basic direction of sensible reform: not to concentrate resources on countries with access to capital markets.
His answer to irresponsive, ineffective, unaffordable old government is not reform, but to produce more of it.
The Soviets at last understood that the best they could hope for was to be allowed to reform their system, not to impose it on the rest of the world.
Giving people choice through control over their own budget is an approach to public service reform that does not have to be limited to health and education.
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This is an effort to deny Richard Cordray the opportunity to serve in this position because of opposition to the position itself and opposition to Wall Street reform, not because of opposition to this nominee.
For a number of these organizations, CLASS was their principal motivation to support national health reform, and to them, health reform that did not address the need for long-term services and supports for persons with disabilities was not worthy of the name health reform.
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But leadership is not required to make a reform plan, only to implement it.
Al Wefaq delegates pulled out, saying the government was not willing to discuss political reform.
To be fair, cynicism and timidity over reform are not unique to the post-communist bit of Europe.
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