The reform measures the SEC has endorsed to address the scandals that have surfaced are preposterous.
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After the Great Depression, and later after the 1987 crash, real reform measures were introduced.
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Reform measures in other states have proven to be expensive duds.
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What are the indigenous structural and price reform measures that have yet to be taken that would help alleviate distribution and hoarding problems in the USSR?
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Indeed, the Democrats' tactics in Congress are to generate support by attacking Mr Bush's energy plans and by passing health-reform measures opposed by insurance and drugs companies.
It added that the French government "now has less room for manoeuvre", but needed to show its "continued commitment to implementing the necessary economic and fiscal reform measures".
He also pledged to adopt further reform measures if necessary.
The Council of Europe this week noted with dismay, for example, the failure to introduce promised electoral reform measures, or to allow the opposition unrestricted access to CCTV footage of polling stations.
Negotiating the plan has involved hectic late-night sessions in which outside officials have given locals copious instructions on the details of reform measures and the lobbying needed to gain support for them.
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The share of patient spending has since fallen as the government began to address the problem (see chart) but the latest reform measures are part of an accelerated drive to overhaul the system.
Since September, the government has taken several fiscal reform measures such as allowing regular increases in state-set discounted prices of diesel and capping the number of LPG cylinders available to families at subsidized rates.
They can also use the break to consolidate privatization and other reform measures, and to focus on new strategies, from increasing the quantity of international exports to improving the quality of the domestic workforce.
Advances in global economic integration as well as financial reform measures such as Dodd-Frank and others are moving market participants to trade their financial instruments on centralized, monitored exchanges so we can help avert another financial meltdown like we had in 2008.
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On Tuesday, Obama said he still supported a broader deal and made clear that revenue from tax reform measures previously agreed to by Republicans -- such as eliminating some loopholes to increase revenue for the government -- should be part of it.
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India has been pressing for a rating upgrade on the back of the several reform measures that the government has taken since September to revive investments and growth and to rein in its fiscal deficit, which has been under watch by rating agencies.
Obama said Tuesday that he still supports a broader deficit deal and made clear that revenue from tax reform measures previously agreed to by Republicans -- such as eliminating some loopholes to increase revenue for the government -- should be part of it.
There are a series of other pieces of his revenue proposal that deal with some reform measures, like capping deductions and other issues, and then there would be a separate or additional tax reform process that is something that both sides have sought in a so-called two-stage deal.
As part of its mid-term strategic initiatives announced in April 2012, Sony identified resource optimization as one of the key initiatives for transforming its electronics business and Sony has since been progressively implementing various structural reform measures to optimize costs, streamline its overall organization, accelerate decision-making processes and establish firm foundations for sustainable future growth.
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In its prior corporate strategy announcement, Sony stated that through the combination of these structural reform measures and business portfolio realignment it expected to reduce headcount across the entire Sony Group, primarily in the electronics business, by approximately 10, 000 in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013 ("FY12"), including approximately 3, 000 to 4, 000 in Japan.
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Both a second round of pension reform and measures to make it easier to hire and fire are making only slow progress.
It was the scholarly Mr Singh, in fact, as a Congress finance minister in 1991, who initiated India's biggest-ever package of reform and liberalisation measures.
President Barack Obama has worked closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass health care reform and other measures, but there are a number of private-sector figures whose names appear more frequently in White House visitor records.
Any such development under present circumstances would have predictable results in the Soviet Union: the fueling of continued strategic military modernization, the underwriting of widening domestic repression and the further deferral of genuine economic reform and democratization measures.
Instead, his second term focused on deficit reduction, Medicare reform, implementing welfare reform and narrower measures such as the creation of the v-chip to protect under-aged television viewers from edgy programs and the expansion of Medicaid to cover children.
It will include immigration reform, tougher measures to stem an epidemic of gun violence, new measures to curb the emissions of carbon gases, new spending that not only build and repair infrastructure but prepare for the green technology jobs of tomorrow.
Whoever leads this hypothetical government would have to draw up a list of tasks, starting with the election of the new president of the Republic and moving on to election reform, parliamentary reform and other measures which Mr Grillo might support, like conflicts of interest, corruption and cutting the costs of politics.
The measures in the paper a new investment law, accelerated privatisation, legal reform, counter-corruption measures and so on look sensible enough, says Fauzi Ichsan, an economist at Standard Chartered Bank.
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