Word: reform
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...contract from the Indonesian government is part of a longstanding HIID involvement in several Indonesian government projects to spur rural development, improve its industrial and trade policies, and institute tax reform, HIID officials said yesterday...
Fermina meanwhile marries Juvenal Urbino, a famous doctor who, having studied medicine in Paris, tries to reform the health standards of the city, which is presumed to be Cartagena or Barranquilla--on the Colombian Caribbean coast. Their match, while longlasting, is hardly ideal, and Marquez writes that "the problem with public life is overcoming terror; the problem with marriage is overcoming boredom...
BUDAPEST, Hungary--Janos Kadar, the hard-line leader of Hungary's Communist Party since 1956, was removed from his post yesterday and succeeded by reform-minded Premier Karoly Grosz...
...year-old premier becomes party leader with a revamped Politburo trimmed of aging apparatchiks. Imre Pozsgay, a leading advocate of reform, and Reszo Nyers, the father of Hungary's economic restructuring in the 1960s who was dropped from the Politburo in 1972, were appointed to the ruling body...
...from its willful disregard of student input to its inability to eradicate institutional sexism, the administration has yet to prove concern for anything but self-perpetuation. Maybe having a union with 3400 members to contend with will be enough to loosen the hierarchy's hold on power and spur reform...