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Modernization, in other words, is about everyone becoming Jewish.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Modernization, in other words, is about everyone becoming Jewish.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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"Modernization is undoing the state," a former top official told me.
History Moving North 1997
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Rhee has been credited with improvements to the physical conditions of school facilities, but since June 2007, all capital planning, construction, renovation, and major repairs of D.C.P.S. school buildings have been the responsibility of the Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization, which is an agency separate from D.C. schools.
What Michelle Rhee did in D.C.: Point by point Valerie Strauss 2010
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"Modernization" was the term used by Congress as it deregulated the financial services industry over the past 25 years.
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"Modernization" was the term used by Congress as it deregulated the financial services industry over the past 25 years.
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"Modernization" is a slippery word that for some hides proposals to create new weapons.
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"Reform" in an act as in "The Commodities Futures Trading 'Modernization'" Act of 2000 (thanks to Larry Summers and signer Bill Clinton), which helped bring us "The Enron Loophole," which helped bring down Enron and helped get us in the financial pickle we're in today with derivatives.
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'Modernization' is a value-loaded concept, and can mean different things to different people.
Countercurrents.org 2009
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Pass Phil Gramm's Commodities Futures 'Modernization' Act: Now we EXPLICITLY prohibit the regulation of derivatives!!
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