51.   Dini has set pension reform as one of his key objective.

52.   Dini has repeatedly predicted his government would only need a few months to push pension reforms and other urgent budget-paring measures.

53.   Earlier in his administration, his pension reforms helped keep the deficit down.

54.   Examples of social safety nets include unemployment benefits, health insurance and pension reform.

55.   Fourteen deputies and three senators split with their hardline Communist party Wednesday to protest a plan by the party to block pension reforms sought by Premier Lamberto Dini.

56.   He asked Congress to enact pension reform and require more financial disclosure from companies.

57.   He said Thursday that pension reform, another of his key goals, would be presented by the end of the month.

58.   However, it was held by the government to be an important step toward badly needed pension reforms.

59.   Kwasniewski said the pension system reform was necessary to complete free market reforms launched six years ago, after the toppling of the communist regime.

60.   Labor unions threatened to boycott pension reforms and to call massive demonstrations against the law.