reform
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But his PTI party made little headway improving Pakistan's finances, with galloping inflation, crippling debt and a feeble rupee undermining economic reform.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Disabled and terminally ill campaigners have written to Prime Minister Andy Burnham urging him to reform social and palliative care before assisted dying legislation is introduced in England and Wales.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Flock has claimed the company will reform its policies to address these issues, but history suggests it would be unwise to trust them.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Now the institutional descendant of one Roosevelt reform is asking Congress for protection from the other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“It’s a little late in the game to try to reform him now. Humor the man.”
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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Researchers said their findings underscore the importance of clearly communicating with the public when developing and implementing healthcare reforms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The passing of the two leaders into China's history books marks a definitive end to the breakneck reforms of the 1990s and early 2000s, with an emphasis on private entrepreneurship and wealth creation.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
This will involve both economic and political reforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“It’s not clear that any of these reforms helped elect more moderates or limit polarization,” said Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Stanton asked Anthony, trying to persuade her that they should work on women’s rights issues before temperance and other reforms.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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The university also hired a new provost and new deans and reformed its discipline policies to make them “more consistent, fair and effective,” Garber has said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The show became cult viewing in Australia - and the team reformed to tour the country in 2005 - but the BBC never repeated it in the UK, something that annoyed the three performers.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
A week later, he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which reformed Medicaid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
By 2016, the group reformed as a trio with Bennett, Slayton and new member Jazzy Mejia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Ten riders, including “Rattlesnake” Pete and a presumably reformed Nebraska bandit named Doc Middleton, set out from the Baline Hotel in Chadron on the morning of June 14, 1893.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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It also is calling for reforming the congressional budget process.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
She wrote to Burnham: "The Conservatives are happy to work with you and other parties on reforming social care. But we will only support a solution that abides by two core principles."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
“It’s not a question of who leads the armed forces. It’s a question of thoroughly reforming the system.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
It was also a way of fooling the outside world into thinking that the government was reforming apartheid.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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