Word: reinvention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to look at how to reinvent the center," he said. "That is likely to result in some rearrangements of the Theory Center...
...Theo Althuiszes, who joined and left the cult twice, "Ti had the real control. Do looked to her for guidance." At first the group believed that when believers "advanced to the next level," they took their human bodies with them. But when Ti died, says Althuiszes, Do "had to reinvent everything." Soon there emerged the doctrine of spiritual graduation into extraterrestrial vehicles, with souls transferrable from one physical container to another. Between 1991 and 1993, Do slowly became the incarnation of Jesus. "He was very hesitant to claim that," says Sawyer. But by 1994 the group had posters proclaiming...
After a calamitous decade of billion-dollar losses and misdirected diversification, General Motors Corp. is attempting to reinvent the wheel. In the 1920s, its chairman and creator, Alfred P. Sloan, decreed, "General Motors will be known for building cars for every purse and purpose." As part of a stunning, perhaps even desperate, act of corporate rebirth, GM is spending a suitably giant-size $6 billion this year to launch a fleet of 16 new vehicles. The goal is to occupy rediscovered market niches, and begin the next decade's equally awesome mission--reclaiming its lost automotive empire...
...easier to spot Waldo than Ovitz. He's been out of strobe range for the paparazzi, who haven't seen him at a single Hollywood event. But his movements are tracked with interest by the entertainment community, whose denizens wonder whether the former superagent will be able to reinvent himself and return to his old glory...
...female official in American history should have been triumph enough. But it is clear that Albright means to play a role unlike any Secretary of State before her--and is now consolidating the power she will need to do so. And, of course, no one is better suited to reinvent this role than a woman who, by design or default, has learned to reinvent herself so often...