Word: reformations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That discomfort is especially great on companies and countries that have been slow to reform their economies - such as France and Italy, whose considerable price tags for cars, trains, airplanes, luxury goods and food products have become absolutely daunting once they've traversed the euro-dollar exchange. In places like the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria - where enormous pressure on salaries and production costs have made goods and companies more competitive in recent years - the rise of the euro has been less catastrophic, though only in relative terms. Whereas Germany has watched the plummeting dollar eat at its healthy trade surplus...
...Power of Communication Tim Padgett's article "Cuba's Chance" made it abundantly clear that both Cuba and the U.S. have the opportunity to terminate 46 years of trade embargo and name-calling [March 3]. The people of Cuba deserve economic reform and the quality-of-life improvements that will come with it. Cuban Americans should also have the chance to return to the country of their birth whenever they so choose. U.S. leaders should stop shooting from the lip and open a dialogue with Raúl Castro to accelerate a needed change of course for Cuba...
...pants. Beijing views this summer as its superpower debut, and the central government won't let separatists or free-thinking dissidents undermine its lockstep message. "At the highest levels," says China analyst Russell Leigh Moses, "showing some teeth is much more viable than marching off into the unknown of reform...
...even sure that there will be recommendations for reform,” Ellison says. “I know that people feel like [the Ad Board] is broken. […] It’s not, but the information is not out there.” CATCH...
...students who have had the misfortune of appearing before the Ad Board, reform can’t come quickly enough, despite the educational aims of the Board. Until transparency is increased, communication is improved, and sunlight is shined on the Board’s operations, there will continue to be a large segment of the student body who trembles at the mention of its name, rendering futile its attempts to seem less like an inquisition and more like a way to get students back onto the straight-and-narrow...