It would give the applicants renewed confidence and motivation for reform.

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For a number of these organizations, CLASS was their principal motivation to support national health reform, and to them, health reform that did not address the need for long-term services and supports for persons with disabilities was not worthy of the name health reform.

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According to Ms Andreasen her motivation is " .. to fight for reform within the European Commission".

BBC: Marta Andreasen

Yeager likened it to the days before telecommunications reform: Innovation will remain pent up in a regulatory model that has no motivation to change.

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Aznar argues that the present slowdown in the world economy should not be used as an excuse for delaying the economic reform programme first mooted at the Lisbon summit two years ago, but as an added motivation.

CNN: Jose Maria Aznar