Word: refashioning
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vaulted to power on a reformist message, vowing to refashion the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and change Japan. He won unprecedented support and fawning adoration from a public hungry for a new way of doing things. Everyone from economists to housewives seemed to agree that the country needed a good dose of shock therapy. Why then, does reform in Japan seem dead...
...abandon a cornerstone of U.S. defense strategy--the ability to fight two simultaneous wars. For a decade, that strategy had helped justify the large force structure left over from the cold war. Once Rumsfeld got the generals to abandon it, he could pressure the services to downsize and refashion their forces in support of a more realistic strategy--such as winning one war decisively while deploying peacekeeping troops in perhaps half a dozen other places. "He really locked them in," says a Rumsfeld aide. "He got them to agree that the world had changed...
Republican candidate George W. Bush is hoping to refashion himself as a compassionate conservative by taking a more moderate stance on education than other Republicans. Democratic candidate Al Gore '69 is simply trumpeting the Clinton administration policies...