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• REFORM JUDAISM — REFORM JUDAISM, first of the modern interpretations of Judaism to emerge in response to the changed political and cultural conditions brought about by the emancipation . The Reform movement was a bold historical response to the dramatic events of …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• reform — re·form /ri fȯrm/ vt 1: to put (a writing) into a corrected form that more accurately reflects the agreement of the parties allows a writing signed by mistake to be reform ed W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al. compare ratify 2: to induce or c …   Law dictionary

• Reform of the Calendar —     Reform of the Calendar     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Reform of the Calendar     For the measurement of time the most important units furnished by natural phenomena are the Day and the Year. In regard of both, it is convenient and usual to… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• reform — ► VERB 1) make changes in (something) in order to improve it. 2) cause to abandon an immoral or criminal lifestyle. ► NOUN ▪ the action or process of reforming. DERIVATIVES reformable adjective reformative adjective reformer noun …   English terms dictionary

• reform — [[t]rɪfɔ͟ː(r)m[/t]] ♦♦ reforms, reforming, reformed 1) N VAR Reform consists of changes and improvements to a law, social system, or institution. A reform is an instance of such a change or improvement. The party embarked on a programme of… …   English dictionary

• Reform — For other uses see Reform (disambiguation) Reform means beneficial change, or sometimes, more specifically, reversion to a pure original state. Reform is generally distinguished from revolution. The latter means basic or radical change; whereas… …   Wikipedia

• Reform school — A reform school in the United States was a term used to define, often somewhat euphemistically, what was often essentially a penal institution for boys, generally teenagers.HistorySocial reformers in America in the late 19th and early 20th… …   Wikipedia

• reform — verb 1》 make changes in (something, especially an institution or practice) in order to improve it.     ↘cause (someone) to relinquish an immoral or criminal lifestyle. 2》 Chemistry subject (hydrocarbons) to a catalytic process in which straight… …   English new terms dictionary

• Health care reform in the United States — ] Current estimates put U.S. health care spending at approximately 16% of GDP. [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/25 NHE Fact Sheet.asp#TopOfPage National Health Expenditure Data: NHE Fact Sheet, ] Centers for Medicare and Medicaid… …   Wikipedia

• Health care reform debate in the United States — See also: Health care reform in the United States, Health care in the United States, and Uninsured in the United States Health care in the United States Public health care Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Indian Health Service… …   Wikipedia

• English spelling reform — is the collective term for various campaigns and efforts to change the spelling of the English language to make it simpler and more rationally consistent. There exists a small scale movement among amateur and professional linguists, but one with… …   Wikipedia