Philadelphia's Ed Rendell has been better at building up popular support for radical measures.
If that happens, only the most radical measures, or a euro-zone bail-out, will turn things around.
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With Congress in no mood for radical measures, the prospects for reform are dimming.
He has served a dozen terms in the House of Representatives, failing to find allies for his radical measures.
Some fear the government is considering more radical measures than lighter maintenance.
But while the radical measures remain on the shelf, the situation is unresolved, illustrating two enduring truths - death is unavoidable and space is disappearing.
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Such radical measures were unthinkable until a matter of months ago.
Absent better state secondary schools, universities may have to take radical measures: Cambridge is considering a foundation year for students who show potential but are ill prepared.
Many of the less radical measures, like those strengthening the power of independent bodies such as the national electoral court and the Supreme Court, should be beneficial.
Cancelling the Salisbury by-pass, for example, will condemn the city to worse traffic jams unless its council takes radical measures to prevent traffic coming into the city centre.
Two main dangers came into focus this week as mayors demonstrated outside parliament in Rome and the central government imposed radical measures on the government of indebted Sicily.
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Radical measures often turn out to mean tinkering with the current arrangements, and the government is responsible for plenty of the red tape and the targets it now wants to banish.
If more radical measures are not taken, real estate markets will overheat and enter a crisis, and we will be facing a situation similar to the subprime debacle of February 2007.
Still, the Administration shied away from more radical measures.
But they have made it clear that they would be prepared to contemplate far more radical measures than those so far considered in Tokyo and to act pre-emptively should the risk of deflation grow.
Business groups have pressed him to take "radical" measures to boost economic growth and lift confidence across industry.
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Sir Peter is proposing a number of sensible, but nonetheless pretty radical, measures.
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In Oxford, the university has published its own "corporate plan", outlining the "radical and innovative measures" needed to tackle a funding shortfall.
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The government says the move is the latest stage in a "radical package" of measures which has halved the number of asylum seekers.
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Seven years after the commitment of combat troops, that inflation was still very much alive and was forcing a successor Administration into radical, desperate economic measures in order to restore some financial balance.
These measures fall well short of a radical new start for Peru.
But if the radical groups manage to tie anger over the austerity measures mandated under the country's international bailout to a sense of nationalism, they might pick up more disaffected voters.
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