There are important lessons to be learned from recent experience with reform in Massachusetts.
These attitudes are also causing increasing problems with reform of the public services.
Despite the hostility on the picket line, the government insists any more money for firefighters must be matched with reform.
The government is pressing ahead with reform: a long-awaited law on liberalising Turkey's energy markets finally cleared parliament this week.
Over the past two years, governments should have seized the opportunity of strong external demand to push ahead with reform.
It is desirable to proceed further with reform of the RMB exchange rate regime and increase the RMB exchange rate flexibility.
First, we will move forward with reform of the House of Lords.
LDP, after a brief flirtation with reform, has recently been going backwards.
Among the critical risks are what happens in the Japanese, United States and European economies, and whether the Crisis economies persist with reform.
But ultimately, along with reform efforts, we also have to make sure that we don't have overcrowded classrooms and textbooks that are outdated.
Before his death in 1999, Hassan II, Mohammed VI's father, dabbled with reform, even appointing as prime minister a leftist he had once sentenced to death.
This is a pre-election year, and although Mr Sarkozy said that he would press on with reform, he is deeply unpopular and his prospects of re-election are in the balance.
But there is a feeling, too, that that target date of April 10th next year may have become an end in itself, not a means for pushing on with reform.
Instead WellPoint went along with what turned out to be extremely bad p.r. strategy by the industry to pretend they were on board with reform even though they opposed the core tenets of the legislation.
Today, small businesses pay 18% more for health insurance than large companies do -- with reform, small businesses and their employees will be able to purchase insurance through the insurance exchange, where pooling and competition will lower prices.
Not only had Mr Manning failed in two elections to crack the Liberal hold on Ontario, Canada's most populous province, but even some of his erstwhile supporters claim he has become an imperious leader, out of touch with Reform's populist roots.
Congress and the President should agree to pair tax reform with entitlement reform and get down to work on both.
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And after months of bipartisan work, Senator Chris Dodd and his committee have offered a strong foundation for reform, in line with the proposal I previously laid out, and in line with the reform bill passed by the House.
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France and Germany are fiddling with tax reform whilst the French President with an eye on the election his faces in 2012 is behind all Socilaist possibles in the early polls.
The BBC's Paul Adams, in Washington, says there are tough fights ahead as the president, determined to press ahead with his reform agenda, locks horns with a Republican Party emboldened by its successes in November.
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But Bush has no plans to make electoral reform a signature issue on par with education reform or tax cuts, a White House official said.
The question here is whether union priorities, often concerned with social reform and working conditions, square with those of most investors, which generally is to get the highest return possible for a given amount of risk.
"One of the messages that this forecast sends is that the government cannot afford to be complacent with its reform process, " Vishnu Varathan, senior economist with Mizuho Corporate Bank told the BBC.
So we think that if we take the right actions in these next few days and then continue to focus on the need to grapple with entitlement reform and tax reform, and show that we are addressing those issues with real seriousness, that that will send the message that we want to send around the world about Washington getting its act together.
We can then set up a structure whereby we are dealing with tax reform, closing deductions, closing loopholes, simplifying, dealing with entitlements.
Change is working with the Reform movement, and other faith-based groups, to reform the federal faith-based initiatives, improving the way we partner with organizations that serve people in need.
But they insisted pushing ahead with Lords reform was in the best interests of the country.
At some point in the near future, Congress will deal with immigration reform legislation.
Because the donors and charities associated with school reform are very wealthy they must have impure motives.
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