Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...exempt from mandates too. But AHPs have strong opposition from large insurers and Democrats, including Gore, who do not favor private-sector solutions for health-care problems. Republicans, though, see AHPs as a potent plank in their election-year health-care platform. Indeed, in his $42 billion health-care reform plan, the "New Prosperity Initiative" unveiled in April, Bush proposed that AHPs be offered to small-business owners through trade associations...
...Iranian reform newspapers shut by conservative-leaning courts last week...
...reform newspapers have really been the most important single organizing vehicle of the reform movement. It's given voice to the challenge to the conservative clergy's grip on power, and in recent years has become increasingly bold in its willingness to discuss topics previously off-limits...
...Extreme caution while waiting for parliament to convene in two weeks' time. This may the most dangerous period the reform movement has experienced yet. The leadership has become acutely aware of the need to avoid giving the conservatives the slightest excuse for any sort of crackdown, because they're aware that the shutdown of a newspaper, for example, could provoke a student demonstration, and that in turn could spark a fierce crackdown that might even create a security pretext for the conservatives to delay the seating of the new parliament...
...have to remember that the reformers weren't expecting to do nearly as well as they did in February. It took them by surprise, and they now believe they became over-hasty, and weren't prepared for the backlash. Now they're reverting to Khatami's original strategy of moving reform forward by smaller steps that are more certain...