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Traditional phrase structure grammar analyzed sentences independent of their relation to other sentences: for example, a passive sentence like "Max was crushed by the safe" would be parsed into subject-verb-prepositional phrase. Chomsky's contribution was to recognize that the same, easily described relationship between that sentence and its active counterpart, "The safe crushed Max," exists between countless other pairs of sentences. He conceived of "transformations" as simple devices to describe the relations between simple sentences like "The safe crushed Max" and complex ones like "Max was crushed by the safe," "What the safe did was crush...
...Africa, after years of bloody anticolonial and civil wars, is quiet, but only relatively. The new military regime in Ethiopia is trying, without much success, to crush the twelve-year-old secessionist movement in the strategically important northern province of Eritrea. Last week, in the Red Sea port of Assab and the Eritrean capital of Asmara, fighting flared between the government and units of the 6,000-man-strong Eritrean Liberation Front, and rebel bombs and grenades exploded in crowded Asmara restaurants. With the government vowing to "beat back the bandits" (as it calls the rebels), fighting in northern Ethiopia...
...enemy is off Manhattan. The largest expeditionary force in British history seizes Staten Island and prepares to invade the mainland to crush General George Washington's ragtag Continentals -and with them the Revolution. Near Wall Street, frenzied New Yorkers tear down George III's statue. Delaware Congressional Delegate Rodney Caesar rides 80 miles through thunderstorms to Philadelphia to help make the colonies' Declaration of Independence unanimous...
When Carlos Andrés Pérez was elected President of Venezuela a year ago this week, his country faced an enviable economic crisis. Rising oil prices threatened to fill the national coffers at more than triple the 1973 rate of $3 billion. "The $10 billion will crush us," warned former Minister of Mines and OPEC Founder Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo. "We have a President with a moun tain of gold to dispense. Everyone will be thinking how to put his hand...
Both sides would probably use missiles, and in consequence there would probably be a large number of civilian casualties. The Israeli aim presumably would be a fast, decisive strike against Syria to avoid a three-front war, with Egypt, Jordan and Iraq joining forces to crush them...