I have yet to meet a politician with a substantive plan to overhaul a system of food and fuel subsidies that eats up almost one third of the budget, or to reform the education sector, or to stimulate foreign investment.
The Guinness Bass Import Company, the unit of Diageo P.L.C. that distributes and markets Guinness stout in the United States, is overhauling its sales pitch in substantive ways meant to make the brand seem less intimidating to those Americans, particularly in their mid-20's, who typically favor imported beers.
[C4.] This Guinness Is for You The Guinness Bass Import Company, the unit of Diageo that distributes and markets Guinness stout in the United States, is overhauling its sales pitch in substantive ways meant to make the brand seem less intimidating to those Americans, particularly in their mid-20's, who typically favor imported beers.
But the hour-long address offered no substantive concessions to demonstrators who had demanded an overhaul of laws that have greatly restricted freedoms for more than four decades.
Yet some Republicans, including some with ties to Mr. Bush, said in interviews that Mr. Bush was not doing enough to draw attention to the improving economy and claim credit for it, or to offer substantive proposals to make health care more affordable or to overhaul the tax code.
But his willingness to consider the alternative, known as an add-on account, suggested that the administration was intent on retaining as much flexibility as possible to overcome the political and substantive obstacles that have slowed Mr. Bush's drive to overhaul Social Security.
Republicans said they were intent on winning substantive changes to the bill and accused the Democrats of rushing the most far-reaching overhaul of the financial regulatory system since the Great Depression.
Substantive proposals are also under consideration to improve intelligence-sharing among law enforcement agencies and to overhaul the security forces to make them less corrupt.
Mexico's business community and foreign investors have long made the overhaul of the state's antiquated electricity sector a crucial test of Mr. Fox's ability to deliver substantive economic change.
