31.   Still, investors ask, if financial reform will take five years, how long it will take to deregulate the entire economy.

32.   Still, the reforms are taking hold.

33.   The long battle for campaign finance reform took a major step forward early Thursday when the House removed the last impediments to passage of the Shays-Meehan bill.

34.   The president declared his displeasure obliquely, saying that economic reform should take precedence over politics.

35.   There are also signs that reforms are taking hold.

36.   Those reforms can take over a decade to take effect, analysts said.

37.   To be sure, it may take a long time before Japanese reforms take hold, some analysts said.

38.   What form might the reform take?

39.   What shape reform might take was not clear.

40.   Yes, campaign finance reform will probably take another year, another Congress, maybe more than one year, and more than one Congress.