51.   And those reforms are more far-reaching than these.

52.   And, former Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa has said his concern is in seeing police reforms are put into place.

53.   And with insurance access and portability no longer unresolved issues, the legislative engine most likely to pull along other worthy but less enthusiastically embraced reforms would be gone.

54.   Another important reform would be to integrate the corporate and personal tax codes.

55.   Any far-reaching reform is likely to take years.

56.   Appel, whose organization favors the Contract, agrees that legal reforms are in trouble and blames that on the strong influence that trial lawyers have on the Senate.

57.   Anything more than modest health care legislation, for example, seems unlikely, and welfare reform will be an uphill fight.

58.   Archer says that without a bipartisan approach, full-scale tax reform is out of the question until a Republican is elected president.

59.   As long as Russia depends on the good opinion of international capital markets, though, those reforms may not be sufficient.

60.   As Chai and other US-based businesspeople see it, the ability to strike deals without government interference would show that civic reforms are in place.