In the service of conservative ideology, President Bush and the Republican Congress would "reform" away Social Security survivors' benefits.
So Mr Fazio used all his influence to brush these useful reforms away or to water them down.
The health systems of former Soviet Union countries are undergoing reform away from the highly centralised, resource-intensive, specialised and hierarchical Soviet system, towards a more generalist, efficient health service with greater focus on primary health care.
Once the Falangists gained power, they swept those reforms away, suppressing them for decades.
The then-president swiped Bob Dole's main campaign theme, welfare reform, away from him by going ahead and reforming welfare himself.
We also need to move the fight for immigration reform away from the politics of the moment to the politics of full inclusion.
"We absolutely intend to make sure Republicans will be in the very uncomfortable position of looking voters in the eye and making it clear they want to take affordable health care reform away from them," said Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman Eric Schultz.
Yet the influences that drove medical education reform away from content-based curricula remain – educational research showing the benefits of integrated and within context learning, ever-increasing medical knowledge, the information technology revolution, and demands to ensure learning in patient safety and professionalism.
Hadn't Blair come to regard his first four years as a waste, wishing he had started reforming straight away?
By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, September 23 , 1933P. 18 Tells about Mr. Munson who reformed and stayed away from speakeasies and didn't indulge except for occasional new beer.
