Word: revolutionize
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Starting out in 1957 with $70,000, M.I.T. engineer Ken Olsen, 66, founded the Digital Equipment Corp., which grew into the world's second largest computer maker, a $14 billion firm. Now, under the gun for DEC's financial woes -- a huge loss is anticipated for the quarter just ended...
When the "velvet revolution" brought democracy to his country in 1989, Vaclav Havel hoped a strong and unified Czechoslovakia would help anchor a peaceful postcommunist Central Europe. Last week Havel's vision finally faded when Slovakia's parliament split the country by declaring its sovereignty. Moments later Havel stepped down...
There is a difference, the true seditionist would argue, between a revolution and a gesture of macho defiance. Gestures are cheap. They feel good, they blow off some rage. But revolutions, violent or otherwise, are made by people who have learned how to count very slowly to 10.
Since the Industrial Revolution, gases like carbon dioxide and methane have been wafting into the atmosphere, where they let the sun's rays in to warm the earth but keep excess heat from escaping back into space. Acting like the glass walls of a greenhouse, these gases have forced the...
Yeltsin won a major victory over hardliners in August 1991, but many democratic supporters fear that the second Russian revolution did not go far enough in suppressing the communist past and hope that the court will close out the chapter. In fact, what happened to the party remains something of...