He asked again for things the Legislature had rejected, like an initiative and referendum system, mayoral control of big-city schools, campaign finance reform, easing of the Rockefeller-era drug laws, and anti-terror laws.
Heavy industries to get £250m assistance in the form of relief from carbon-related taxes, measures to reduce the impact on them of the electricity market reforms, and easing of the carbon price floor.
With the easing of censorship under the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s, Medvedev's books were published in his own country for the first time, and he emerged as a leading independent historian in the Soviet Union.
Costa, who campaigned on a promise of easing some of the painful reforms imposed on western Europe's poorest country, was quick to concede defeat but ruled out stepping down as party leader.
In the face of unflagging unrest across the Chinese countryside in recent years, the strategy of ritually intoning the value of stability above all — instead of easing the process of reform into a higher gear — has begun to look threadbare to some intellectuals on the edges of the system.
Is it realistic to think that the easing of sanctions is going to lead to reforms that would allow for greater U.S. investment?
Bush promised tax cuts, tax credits for research and development, tort reform, an easing of restrictions on computer exports and more visas for foreign scientists and engineers.
The move is designed to ease the pace and scale of the reforms currently working their way through schools, which have already been warned to expect a significant dip in exam results this summer as a result of reforms to GCSEs that prevent pupils repeatedly resitting them.
Another major aspect of the reforms is an easing of travel restrictions to Cuba, as well as a new measure that would allow US travellers to Cuba to use their debit and credit cards.
They want sweeping economic and political reforms, an easing of the business climate, but are also horrified by what they see as the Arab invasion of France.
