1.   Of course this liberal reform would mean a dramatic increase in the cost of the probation service.

2.   The reforms would mean lower pay for newly qualified officers.

3.   The reforms could also mean that the most experienced specialist officers, such as police divers, would have to go back on the beat.

4.   As for energy, any serious reform means constitutional changes, requiring a two-thirds majority.

5.   Broadly speaking, welfare reform means replacing welfare checks with paychecks.

6.   Deng understood that economic reform meant turning loose forces in Chinese society that eventually would challenge the Leninist rule of the party.

7.   Economic reform will mean little now and will always remain vulnerable in the future as long as it is not accompanied by political and institutional reform.

8.   Even so, for most people, housing reform will mean more living space and better facilities than ever before.

9.   Florida, where he made the announcement, is full of elderly voters nervous about what health-care reforms mean for them.

10.   Ideologues who cruelly argue that reform means that the majority culture must make war on the underclass are misreading the mood of nearly everyone else.