Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...putting up a U.S. plant for years. Nor will the giant German automaker be the first foreign company to assemble cars in America-Sweden's Volvo has already started building a $100 million plant in Chesapeake, Va. Still, the formal decision illustrates how changes in currency values can transform world business patterns...
While the fact that this reform threatens to transform French universities into nothing more than training centers for future clerical and technical workers is disturbing enough, it also has sinister ideological and political overtones. By branding the universities "producers of unemployment," the Giscard government is attempting to transfer the responsibility for unemployment onto the unemployed themselves. As a result of the current recession, France is suffering its highest unemployment rates since World War II. To divert public attention from the roots of this unemployment in France's social and economic system, the Giscard government has blamed the educational training...
...vocational or academic training, individual or group counseling, long or short sentences, probation or parole-it does not work. We must finally concede that it is naive to suppose we can take a convict who has devoted a good part of his life to misbehavior of every sort and transform his character...
MONTEZUMA. Some people transform a stage. Sarah Caldwell revolutionizes it. At the premiere of Montezuma, it was difficult to recognize the tiny (26-ft.-deep) stage of Boston's old Orpheum Theater. The apron had been built out 8 ft. The lower boxes had been converted into overflow basins for extra members of the orchestra, mostly percussion. Through the upper boxes paraded soldiers and Aztec natives on their way to destiny. Behind scrims and translucent screens soldiers fought silhouetted battles that suggested endless depth...
...cornered tenacity of Smith's opposition to majority rule is his belief in the ultimate backing he enjoys from the white population of neighboring South Africa. Smith appears unmoved by recent nationalist successes in Mozambique and Angola and changes in South African policy which have combined to transform Rhodesia's status from that of a white buffer state firmly supported by Pretoria to a tenuous peninsula of white minority rule with uncertain South African support. Vorster has repeatedly stated that he would rather see a stable black government in Rhodesia than an unstable white one, and he realistically fears that...