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Bradley has made the costlier pledges so far: his ambitious universal health-care initiative would by itself use the entire surplus, according to some estimates.
And though he pledges to destroy "those who greedily sought his destruction," the only connection between him and his victims appears to be a love of day trading.
Zhu, too, is judged harshly, since most of his social reform pledges have remained unfulfilled, but the economy is on an upswing, and the "WTO breakthrough" is a boost to his hopes.
According to the Washington Post , Steve Forbes and George W. Bush are criticizing Al Gore for naively accepting Russian pledges of economic reform.
There is good reason to take those pledges seriously: Between 1980 and 1995, a period when most of the labor movement was submoribund, Sweeney's SEIU launched a series of clever and dogged organizing campaigns, and nearly doubled its membership.