Word: recast
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...Emphasizing its power to develop the neighborhood, the University recast the public relations mess as an opportunity for Allston to clean up the industrial plots that Mellone says “have always been a blight on this community...
...wasn't supposed to be this way. After the N.A.A.C.P. and affiliated groups attacked the lack of diversity on TV and threatened boycotts in 1999, the networks recast series, appointed diversity czars and instituted minority recruitment and training programs. Last year, with the media and activists looking over the networks' shoulders, those efforts produced results--mostly African Americans plugged into ensembles. But there is no Latino Cosby Show or even Steve Harvey Show. Hispanics still have trouble getting parts other than the perp, the victim or that newly resurgent figure, the maid/nanny. (A rare exception was Esai Morales, recently added...
...years here, George was one of the solid rocks on which TIME was built. A master of journalistic compression and clarity, he wrote 126 cover stories, still the record. His ability to command volumes of fact and reams of endlessly incoming reporting was legendary. As deadlines loomed, he deftly recast stories with fresh information, whittling them to fit the constraints of the printed page with nary a loss of substance and ever increasing levels of precision. The final product always appeared effortlessly expert, unassailably reasoned, as burnished as literature. One of the most colorful characters to walk our halls, George...
...Such fervor caused Li's handlers to recast the New Year's message. Says New York spokeswoman Gail Rachlin: "The essay is about stepping out and telling of evil, not about creating evil." Such fine-tuning may be too subtle for the thousands of believers who flock to Beijing to voice their protest. Indeed, New York's disowning of the five immolators has bewildered some Falun Gong adherents living in China. "I know that violence is against the spirit of Falun Gong," says a 53-year-old factory worker from Nanjing. "But why don't our foreign friends support...
...with whomever Israelis choose to lead them, but the fact that he's been going through the motions of negotiating with Barak almost down to election day has been interpreted as the closest thing the Palestinian leader could do to campaign for his Israeli counterpart. As Sharon works to recast himself as a dove with claws, Arafat is faced with a strategic dilemma. While Bill Clinton was in the White House, Arafat's strategy was to compensate for the imbalance in power between himself and the Israelis by allowing (and even encouraging) political brushfires in the West Bank and Gaza...