Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...overwhelmingly favorable box-office response to films like Mr. Holland's Opus and Music of the Heart are any indication, the public supports music programs in our schools. While Bush and Gore have admirable goals for education reform, their agendas are incomplete. A complete education is one that enriches the mind and the spirit, and nothing can move and develop the spirit like music...
...issues most pertinent to the candidates' platforms and at its worst the media has attacked Gore for his wooden stature and Bush for his intellectual prowess--or lack thereof. Thus far, even the presidential and the vice presidential debates have hammered Social Security, environmental preservation and tax reform rather than intimate details of conduct and character. The coverage certainly may not be as interesting as the stories of the Lewinsky era, but the media has conscientiously focused on the candidates' stance on issues which will effect American citizens and members of the international community rather than pry into Gore...
...Kennedy is the biggest soft-money recipient in the Senate, and he's against education reform because he's in the back pocket of the teachers' union," Robinson said...
...administrations after that - will have their work cut out for them. Beijing?s liberalization efforts had been headed up by Prime Minister Zhu Rongji, who had hoped to use the conditions attached to WTO membership as a lever with which to force the pace of economic reform. But the bottom line of China?s political system is maintaining the Communist Party?s control and what it perceives would be a descent into anarchy - the overarching concern of the leadership in Beijing is that economic liberalization threatens to plunge tens of millions of people into unemployment as decrepit state-owned industries...
...next U.S. administration will find itself dealing with a China that remains formally committed to the path of economic reform but fearful of its social consequences. Of course, the stakes on both sides are already far too high to allow either to walk away from the relationship. But that doesn?t mean the marriage will be a happy...