Word: reformed
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Dimon and Varley’s editorials point to a broadening consensus that a reform of the financial services industry is necessary. But Lawrence White, a professor of economics at the Leonard Stern School of Business at New York University, questioned whether this most recent study has added new insights to the debate...
...Asia. He allowed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 plotters to be tried in the U.S. criminal-justice system rather than by the military. He has dithered too long on Afghanistan. He has devoted too much attention to - and given congressional Democrats too much control over - health care reform, an issue that is peripheral to a majority of Americans...
...popularity after one year, while Obama and Bill Clinton rank at the bottom, with Jimmy Carter close by. There is a reason for that. Democrats come to office eager to govern the heck out of the country. They take on impossible issues, like budget-balancing and health care reform. They run into roadblocks - from their own unruly ranks as well as from Republicans. They get lost in the details. A tax cut is much easier to explain than a tax increase. A foreign policy based in bluster - railing against an "axis of evil" - is easier to sell than a foreign...
...gained the global credibility to get tough - on Iran, for example - in his second year. But the real evaluation of Obama's debut must wait for the results of the two biggest problems he's tackling: his decision on Afghanistan and the congressional attempt to pass health care reform. And even here, it will be difficult to render judgment immediately - as difficult as it was to judge Clinton's decision to spend his political capital on deficit reduction in his 1993 economic plan, a triumph that didn't become apparent for nearly five years...
...Began his second term as Prime Minister in May 2009, after the Congress Party notched a second legislative win, calling the victory a "massive mandate" for Congress's platform of economic reform and championing the poor. He's the first Indian incumbent to be re-elected in 40 years. (Read "Five Challenges Facing India's Election Victors...