Word: reinvente
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Michael Crichton drew on his experiences as a medical student and ignored the usual formulas of TV drama to reinvent the doctor show for the 1990s -- and create the season's surprise hit. The emergency-room action is better than the sometimes-soapy personal stories, but no hour on TV is more gripping...
...story ends to begin again. Each dispersal regroups in a new coalescence. America, for all its disorder, has tremendous energy still. The nation remains programmed to reinvent itself. Fresh leadership somehow still manages to burst up from the chaotic but creative mix. New generations -- even of a degenerating family -- produce surprises, occasionally geniuses, just as new immigrants still struggle into the country full of fire, hoping to establish their own American sagas...
...first anniversary of the Administration's ambitious efforts to "reinvent government," President Clinton, with project leader Al Gore at his side, took a pair of scissors and snipped through a symbolic tangle of red tape to claim that the initiative had already saved $47 billion. How? By removing more than 70,000 workers from the federal payroll, mostly through buyouts and retirements, and cutting paperwork...
...though, the Katzenberg era at Disney -- one of phenomenal growth, an eerie stability and that amazing revival of the precious cartoon heritage -- has ended. Oh well, as the Lion King would say, hakuna matata. Not to worry. Eisner will reinvent his company, and soon, perhaps, Katzenberg will invent his own. For the moment, he's in the hot seat. His former colleague -- and future competitor -- is sitting in the Katzenberg seat...
...pledge to "end welfare as we know it." No issue in his first term has inspired such bipartisan, near universal agreement on the need to do something dramatic. And for all the attention paid in the past year to his health-care plan, no policy has such potential to reinvent whole aspects of American public and private life. Behind all the bureaucratic tinkering is a moral campaign against illegitimacy, aimed at persuading poor people to become stable, self-supporting workers before they become parents. If this crusade works, its supporters promise, it could do more to fight crime, strengthen families...