Word: reformation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other words, "reform" is on the back burner, and while Democrats and Republicans argue over who?s to blame for its failure, both are looking toward long-term crisis management rather than any dramatic policy shift. No wonder the Russian masses clamored for a last glimpse of Raisa Gorbachev. By comparison with the standard of living in today?s Russia, the death throes of communism presided over by her husband may look like a gilded...
...TIME Daily poll: The Reform Party's Candidate
...Campaign finance reform is the best argument for a American third party in years, maybe ever, and it gets to the heart of what the Reform party needs to be to find the voters and constituencies that are sick of the system: issue-driven and intellectually inviting. The debate over reform has advanced beyond Ross Perot's jug-eared, wild-eyed peek under the hood; it has also advanced beyond ? or, rather, never really included ? Buchanan's willful, calculated ignorance of the rules of economic and political success in the modern world. We are up to specifics, up to intra...
...turnout in the U.S. has sunk below 50 percent. Distaste for the current state of Washington politics is tangible; a generation of young voters is convinced ? perhaps rightly ? that they needn't worry about elections until they're rich enough to buy a politician of their own. Campaign-finance reform is being championed by both John McCain and Bill Bradley, and is actually starting to catch on as an issue, yet each finds the movement opposed to varying degrees by their major-party compatriots. The party in power never wants reform, and the party in the minority only pushes...
Even so, Ma urges Taiwan to "resist this kind of harassment," adding that reform will come as the Chinese watch Taiwan conduct free elections...