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...triumphant republicans promise to make tax reform a high priority in the next few months. Democrats will have counterproposals. Here are some of the words you'll be hearing and how to interpret them...
Start with REFORM. Reform is any change in the tax code that you favor...
...Support for Schröder's Social Democratic Party is so weak that the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, which is narrowly controlled by the opposition conservatives, voted against adopting the higher pension and health-insurance contributions as well as Schröder's much-maligned proposal to reform the labor market by turning unemployment offices into temporary job agencies. The labor reforms were suggested by an independent commission headed by Peter Hartz, the personnel chief at Volkswagen. But even Hartz has complained that his recommendations have been so watered down because of pressure from labor unions that they...
...caper may have had more than a commercial motive. Retired detective Gerry O'Carroll, who was in the police unit that carried out surveillance on the General, believes Cahill wanted to embarrass the Irish government. "He hated the State because of what happened to him as a child in [reform] school," O'Carroll says. "He had been beaten like an animal, and abused. Carrying out a 'spectacular' was his revenge." But the heist proved to be Cahill's undoing. He hooked up with the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force to get rid of the paintings - and that made him an I.R.A...
Later, over e-mail, Johnson qualified her distrust and expressed her hope for the committee. “The Coalition began early in 1998” Johnson explained, “to reform education, resources and disciplinary procedures dealing with sexual assault at Harvard. Few of the changes we have sought over the past five years have been realized and our efforts at improvement have been frequently resisted by the University. However, we hope that CASAH is the beginning of a change in that mindset and are looking forward to the concrete, tangible improvements that will come from the committee?...