Word: reformations
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...would like to echo Elliott's sentiments by adding the developments in Northern Ireland to the list of Blair's achievements. The peace process needed a British leader who could push for reform without looking over his shoulder to see how many seats made up his minority government. Blair may be seen as an "unpopular failure" in his country for his participation in the war in Iraq, but I want to thank him for putting Northern Ireland at the top of his agenda. I have always felt that he didn't do so to earn political capital but that...
...money and consumers better quality produce." But building the infrastructure may be the easy part. Convincing government and those invested in the old system that it's time for a change is still a major struggle. While the national coalition government in New Delhi says it is committed to reform as a way of helping farmers boost their incomes, its left-wing members are horrified by the prospect of a flood of organized retail outlets putting mom-and-pop stores out of business. Wal-Mart, which has tied up with Bharti to set up a chain of retail stores...
...production is growing 25% a year. Since 2002, businessmen have been flying into Luanda offering huge sums in return for access to oil, while foreign governments have bolstered their case with aid. China has made a habit of outbidding the world here. In 2004, years of talks over structural reforms between Angola and the International Monetary Fund became redundant when a state-run Chinese bank offered a $2 billion line of credit without any such requirements for reform. In 2005 and 2006, the Chinese announced loans worth an additional $3 billion...
...Presidential campaign, in which the government would pay part of the cost for covering catastrophic illnesses like cancer and heart disease that require the most expensive treatments and surgeries, which consume a disproportionate share of the nation's total health care tab. And as with a number of other reform proposals, including one by his Presidential rival John Edwards, Obama would set up a health insurance program similar to that now offered to federal employees, where the uninsured could pick among a group of plans, with subsidies provided to those who could not afford to buy in. But one idea...
...immediate cause of the family rupture was Aliyev's recent public opposition to the constitutional amendment that gave his wife's father such power. Nazarbayev explained the move as necessary to steer new reform and designed to enhance democracy in the country. Few expect, however, that Nazarbayev will ever step down. Nor did Aliyev, who is married to Dariga, until recently the President's ideologist and confidante (the couple are the parents of Nuralli, Nazarbayev's 22-year-old grandson and the apple of his eye). Nevertheless, the would-be President for Life had grown to detest...