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...late 1990s, Liebman served as special assistant to the president for economic policy and coordinated the Clinton administration’s social security reform technical working group...
...what would Quinn - whose office has acknowledged that the state's accumulated debt could be $5 billion and climbing - do to get the state back on track? "The lieutenant governor has said the priorities are ethics reform, the economy and then the state budget crisis," Reed says. "Any one of those would be enough for anybody, but taken together, it's a tall order...
...Despite the severity of the downturn - and the size of today's protest - French leaders aren't beating a retreat. Heading into the strikes, Sarkozy sounded a conciliatory tone, assuring French citizens that he understood their problems, but also stressing that France can't "halt its reform movement...
...Indications Thursday that work stoppages in some transport systems like the Paris Metro were less severe than expected additionally emboldened officials to repeat pledges they'd stay the reform course. "I don't think you can zap and change policies constantly," said Budget Minister Eric Woerth Thursday. "We must remain level-headed during this very, very stormy period...
...Thibault and fellow union leaders feel so sure? Because while a majority of French public opinion had backed the wide-ranging conservative reform drive that has been Sarkozy's focus since winning the Presidency in May, 2007, there are now signs that his support is crumbling as the recession sets in. Polls on the eve of the strike showed 69% of people supported or sympathized with Thursday's action...