Word: reformist
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...Iran." Europe really doesn't have much to offer Tehran for good behavior. Most European countries are trading with Iran already, evidenced by last month's reported €3.25 billion agreement by Spanish and Anglo-Dutch oil concerns to exploit Iran's natural gas reserves. Saeed Laylaz, a reformist analyst in Tehran, says only an end to U.S. sanctions and admission to the World Trade Organization might tempt the regime - something the U.S. is unlikely to support. Without a breakthrough, it's likely the IAEA will refer Iran next month to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. Some diplomats...
...Indeed, to ensure that the country averts a face-losing performance on home ground, China's leaders are again revving up the sports machine, ending a reformist era during which the mainland began to take a more humanistic approach to sports. In the mid-1990s, amid a greater societal push for individual freedom, China reformed a punishing training system that had forced millions of children into athletic servitude just like the Soviet machine, which was its model. Chinese athletes were given extra help in attending university after retirement, and financial incentives offered the nation's sports stars a reason beyond...
...evidence is likely to raise new obstacles to the prosecution. The biggest beneficiary could be the Serbian Radical Party, whose leader, Vojislav Seselj, is now facing war-crimes charges in the Hague. Even if the Radicals fail to win the presidency, diplomats say the accusations now leveled against its reformist rivals, which have been backed by the current government, could turn back the political clock. Shortly before the trial got under way last December, Ostojic said he believed the proceedings would be "more important than the political situation and even the elections." That assessment is proving just about right...
...massive deficits in order to pile on the pressure by spending billions of dollars on new weapons systems with which the Soviets struggled to keep up. There was, at the same time, plenty of statesmanlike accommodation, particularly in seizing the opportunities represented by the emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev's reformist leadership to reduce tensions and negotiate new arms control agreements. When the Soviet empire began to crumble within a year of his leaving office, President Reagan's supporters credited him with having forced the collapse by piling on the military pressure. They also proclaim the economic boom of the 1990s...
...Tian are still the property of the Chinese state. Unlike Western athletes, they cannot fire their coaches, who have been assigned to them by local sports authorities. A big chunk of their endorsement earnings must be donated to the national swimming and diving association, which, in today's reformist economic era, must be financially self-sufficient. Both Tian and Guo live full-time in dormitories and are given just one day off each week, if that, to spend with their families. Reveille is at 6 a.m. and lights must be out at 10-although a few divers admit to surfing...