Word: reform
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...roll. But, as an unusually subdued Edwin Edwards noted, "it has to end sometime." After finishing second in an open primary on Oct. 24, he admitted defeat in his attempt for a fourth term as Louisiana's Governor. His successor will be four- term Congressman Buddy Roemer, 43, a reform-minded conservative Democrat...
...13th Congress of the 46 million-member Chinese Communist Party officially opened last week, the contrast between the energetic reformer and the enfeebled conservative was starkly symbolic. The party conclave, the first since 1982, had long been seen as a watershed event, the meeting at which Deng would consolidate the controversial economic and political reforms he began in 1979. Less than a year ago, sinologists speculated that the octogenarians who have run the country since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976 would use the occasion to cede control to younger, reform-minded leaders. In the end Deng Xiaoping...
Welcome to the "Second Revolution," a phrase used by both Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the upheaval in economics and ideas now under way in the two Communist powers. The Chinese speak of gai ge (reform) or kai fang (opening up). The Soviets refer to perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). What the new slogans herald is the most far-ranging shift in course since Dictator Joseph Stalin drove the Soviet Union onto the path of forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural...
...House-Senate conference is not held very early in the spring, chances are [welfare reform] could get caught up in presidential politics," said Clinton, who co-chaired the governors' working group on welfare reform with Castle. He said the deficit and the crash have put new pressures on Congress that may force members to postpone a major project like this...
...agree with the Soviets onintermediate-range missiles, then we can forge aconsensus on welfare reform," said Clinton, whoconsidered a run for the Democratic presidentialrace earlier this year...