Word: reform
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Jensen said he also worked closely with Dukakis on welfare reform and civil rights during the late 1970s when Jensen served in the administration of former President Carter...
...nonetheless be able to run a respectable contest. "We are going to have this election right in the belly of the beast," he says. Many Haitians, however, feel that Ambroise's optimism is misguided, and some have suggested boycotting the elections. To prevent that, several popular coalitions recommended a reform of the provisional regime, including the possible resignation of General Williams Regala, the least popular member of the three-man government...
...rallies and speeches as he campaigns for a job that is assuredly his. Come Dec. 1, 1988, and inauguration day, however, the real challenge will begin: steering a course between populism and continued economic austerity. In the past, Mexican Presidents have taken office amid a burst of optimism and reform, but their accomplishments have usually fallen far short of their promises. If Salinas is as good a student as his academic resume suggests, he will have learned from the mistakes of his predecessors...
While scoring business triumphs, Korea has been racked by political and social unrest for much of the year. In the summer, massive and violent street demonstrations forced Korean President Chun Doo Hwan to speed up the process of democratic reform. Then a series of strikes temporarily shut down virtually all major Korean companies and many minor ones as workers demanded -- and won -- higher wages. Amid the turmoil, the Korean economy has proved resilient; growth for the year is expected...
Like Communist rulers elsewhere, Polish officials have not been eager to submit their decisions to a vote of the people. But to win public support for a sweeping economic-reform package, Warsaw announced last week that it will put the measures to a referendum in late November. The plebiscite will be the first since the late 1940s...