Word: reformator
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...neighbors, as in the case of Fortis - to put together piecemeal local solutions. Gros and many others want a more comprehensive, pan-European regulatory framework to be put in place, a plan the European Commission in Brussels is eager to promote. Among other measures, the Commission is proposing a reform of banking-capital requirements...
...government is much more responsible for this mess than Wall Street is, by failing to reform government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2005 and by allowing subprime mortgage loans to be made to unqualified buyers. Forrest S. Walters, Erie, Pennsylvania...
...government is much more responsible for this mess than Wall Street is, by refusing to reform Fannie and Freddie in 2005 and by allowing subprime mortgage loans to be made to unqualified buyers. Forrest S. Walters, ERIE...
...bewhiskered Jeyaretnam served in Parliament from 1981 to '86 and from 1997 to 2001. A fierce advocate for Singapore's disadvantaged, he faced sporadic bankruptcy as a result of defamation suits filed by several Singaporean politicians. Earlier this year, in a return to politics, he helped found the Reform Party and planned to run in the 2011 elections...
Touting energy reform and clean government, Palin cruised to an easy victory in November. She pledged in her inaugural address to have a gas-pipeline bill in four months and spent the next two days in back-to-back meetings with gas producers. One of her first appointments was Marty Rutherford, Irwin's deputy, who agreed to act in Irwin's old job until Irwin could return a few months later. The two veterans joined with another Palin appointee, revenue commissioner Pat Galvin, to form what everyone in Alaska politics simply calls the "gas team." Their job: get the pipeline...