Word: recasting
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...company's specialty is the construction and equipping of so-called mini steel mills. These comparatively small plants recast scrap steel and iron pellets into finished bars, rods and other products. The minimills are in great demand because they can produce steel much more cheaply than traditional plants with huge blast furnaces, which convert raw iron ore and coal into steel. Danieli has put up mills in 27 countries, including the U.S., the Soviet Union, Burma and Venezuela. In fact, the company has helped design, build or equip about half of the more than 250 minimills in the world...
...feminism--or a certain brand of feminism--has gone beyond those liberal claims, attempting to recast the roles of men and women, and to change the rules of the Battle of the Sexes. Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will, laid the foundations by contending that women have been repressed by the socially tolerated threat of rape. One implication is that women can never achieve equality with men until rape is wiped out. Another is that sexual relations are somehow inherently unjust, that a man always has the tacit trump card of a potential rape to play against his partner...
...usual, the legal issues obscured the real ones. The feminist fascists used the rape argument as a Trojan Horse. Their ultimate purpose was to recast the relations of men and women...
...Marcos' New Society Movement were angry because the new Minister of Local Government, Aquilino Pimentel, indicated that Aquino might name many of her own people to provincial and municipal slots and postpone local elections expected in May. The new President ran into less opposition when she attempted to recast the Marcos-dominated judiciary. By week's end she had secured resignations from ten of the twelve members of the Supreme Court and from 37 of 38 judges on the appellate court...
Hutton pledged to take all the remedies that Bell prescribed to prevent recurrences. Until now, Hutton has been largely run by insiders; only four of its 27 directors are from outside the company. But to provide additional controls, the firm's board will be recast to include a majority of outsiders in place of corporate officers. Hutton will restructure its management chart so that diverse number-crunching departments will answer to a single top financial executive...