reform
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Eventually, education and advocacy work earned him a place on a police reform panel called the Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative in Ithaca, New York.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Discussions of hospice reform should be focused on first stopping any fraudulent activity from wasting Medicare dollars, which would result in greater savings than those identified in this report.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The letter warned that without reform of current state laws protecting utilities, disasters like the Eaton fire could happen again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
It added many of the extra costs pushing up prices have come from higher National Insurance contributions, increased packaging taxes and failing to reform "outdated" business rates.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Hazel grew up—did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn’t learn anything in either place.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Medicaid was established, along with Medicare for older adults, in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” reforms.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
A better yen salvage plan would involve less government spending and renewed reforms to spur economic growth—making Japan a more desirable place to invest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The idea was that the board would be the forum where Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and other Middle East countries discuss political reforms, reconstruction, and other issues relating to long-term peace in Gaza.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
This referred to the combination of aggressive monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms under assassinated former premier Shinzo Abe, a figure greatly admired by Japan's first woman leader Takaichi.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Egypt was an important model for us, for we could witness firsthand the program of socialist economic reforms being launched by President Nasser.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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A week later, he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which reformed Medicaid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
French regulators granted a limited license to Binance to service local customers as the exchange tried to prove it had reformed from its early, freewheeling days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The national commission, originally created by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was reformed under President Richard Nixon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Burnham has yet to set out how his plan to bring about "the biggest rebalancing of power our country has ever seen" would work alongside Jones's reformed Whitehall.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Was Mandela the same man who went to prison twenty-seven years before, or was this a different Mandela, a reformed Mandela?
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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On July 14, the Department of Health and Human Services began soliciting ideas for reforming Medicare’s physician payment system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The bigger question is whether Burnham is likely to follow through with some of the more expensive policies he's previously signalled, including reforming social care or expanding council house building.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
"One way of reforming this rigid system is to start with our own families," said Norlina Rambu Jola Kalunga, 54, a noblewoman who inherited five atas when she married the son of a royal family.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
In 2002, Congress created the Election Assistance Commission to administer the Help America Vote Act, which assists states in reforming their elections.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
For better or worse, the coming decades were to be about music taking on the task of reforming humanity, dreaming up a new Utopia and leading the arts to unite mankind.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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