reform
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"Every reform, everything that you try to do when you try to change the status quo, there is pushback," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Suk’s scholarship focuses on the processes of constitutional amendment and reform and the feminist constitutional movements.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
“It still needs reform, and I’ll fight for that reform as mayor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
But with major reform some way off, fears are growing about the months ahead.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 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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Under scrutiny by global index providers and credit rating agencies, Indonesian authorities have announced reforms and sought to address market concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"That is why country strategies and compacts matter. Roadmaps built around a country's ambitions, the results we are trying to achieve together, and the investments and reforms required to get there," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The current protests follow student-led demonstrations earlier this year over exam irregularities and demands for education reforms.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
That means only about 83% of all earnings covered by the program are subject to the payroll tax, compared with 90% in 1983, when the last major reforms to Social Security were passed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The notion that all of these reforms can be accomplished piecemeal—one at a time, through disconnected advocacy strategies—seems deeply misguided.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Paris will never get its numbers to add up if such an expenditure can’t be debated or reformed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
Andy Burnham has told the BBC "the NHS will collapse" if social care is not reformed but said he could not put a timeline on changes.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Even some Canadian economists and pundits have called for it to be dismantled or reformed.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
They spared those who proved they could be reformed.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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With 19 policymakers, it is difficult to make progress given diverse individual perspectives, strongly held views and the challenge of reforming such a complicated beast.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
The president began work on reforming the Smithsonian on March 27, 2025, by issuing Executive Order 14253.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
That conventional process, known as methane-steam reforming, releases carbon dioxide while producing hydrogen.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Ahead of the speech, the paper highlights ongoing questions around reforming the triple lock, under which pensions rise each year by the highest of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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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