reform
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The government is planning to reform the CMS by moving all parents on to Collect and Pay and reducing the fees it charges.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The presidency said Macron's determination to see the reform implemented remained undiminished.
From Barron's ● 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
Any reform plan from a committee would still require lawmakers to cast a difficult vote exposing them to charges of overtaxing working Americans or stiffing retirees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
But our response to crime remains a blunt and expensive instrument that more often seems to scar the criminal than reform him.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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But others question the effectiveness of the California’s good-government reforms and merits of the self-glorification that followed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The decision is a victory for Macron, who promised the law after his re-election in 2022, marking one of France's biggest social reforms since same-sex marriage was legalised in 2012.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Helen Dickinson, the chief executive of British Retail Consortium, questioned whether the reforms would "actually deliver value for workers" because of the cost to businesses.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
For a period in the 1990s and early 2000s, it looked as if the country might be on a path toward lasting reforms and a greater openness to the rest of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
It took months for the outside world to learn of economic reforms that eased restrictions on private markets in North Korea in 2002.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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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
A week later, he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which reformed Medicaid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Even some Canadian economists and pundits have called for it to be dismantled or reformed.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The message, which was shown in white writing on a black screen, continued: "Public media now will be reformed so it will be independent and trustworthy. Our news programme is currently suspended. Stay tuned!"
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The words scattered, then reformed, and the same word flashed.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji was mourned on Tuesday with lowered flags and social media commemorations, ahead of a funeral for the reforming trailblazer who died last week at 97.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
At his debut press conference, he vowed to face down "multitudinous minefields and 30,000-metre abysses" in reforming China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 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
When I was reforming public schools I sat in them every week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Knowing that punishing Louie would only provoke his defiance, Louise took a surreptitious route toward reforming him.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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