But, because they were an essential part of the attempt in the 1950s and 1960s to impose a planned socialist economy on India, their reform has also come to be seen as an essential part of that economy's dismantling.
Gordon Brown bowed to intense pressure from MPs of all parties yesterday and personally intervened to cancel a proposal by the cash-strapped Ministry of Defence to impose a planned £20m cut in the Territorial Army's training budget, following representations by the former defence secretary John Reid and other senior Labour backbenchers such as Lindsay Hoyle.
Remarkably, a Hamas political leader said last month that the U.S. should impose a plan.
The company has to present a repayment plan to the court, but the court can reject it and impose a plan of its own.
If the two sides remain deadlocked as of May 31, the measure proposed by Mr. Cuomo would empower John B. King Jr., the state's education commissioner, to act as an arbitrator and impose a plan by June 1, state officials said.
The L.M.D.C. agreed not to attempt to unilaterally impose a plan for the World Trade Center site, and the Port Authority, which has in the past operated with lordly independence, pledged to work with the L.M.D.C.
The court will impose a plan if the Legislature and Gov. George E. Pataki fail to strike a deal, but a compromise is still possible, and the court has yet to impose a deadline.
"And I felt that even the United States will not be able, I would say, not to impose a plan on Israel if Israel is not making even the slightest step forward".
In February, acknowledging the frayed relationship between the city and the union, and the improbability of reaching a middle ground, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo authorized Mr. King to impose a plan of his own if the two sides failed to come to a compromise by the end of May.
The outlines of the deal had been clear for more than a week, but it was not clear until today that the Assembly and Senate would agree on the details, and head off a panel of federal judges in Manhattan who had threatened to impose a plan drafted by a special master if the Legislature did not act soon.
With Israel unable to break the logjam, the Palestinians are threatening to declare statehood, and there are reports that the Americans might even unilaterally impose a plan.
