Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, some tobacco watchers think the innovation has the potential to transform the industry. Says Marc Cohen, a consumer-goods expert at the Sanford C. Bernstein investment firm: "The $64,000 question is: How will consumers react to it? Will smokers be satisfied? Will nonsmokers be satisfied?" If the answer is yes, the smoggy poker game, and other familiar scenes, could become a thing of the past...
...contenders, the sighs of unrequited love are likely to linger, especially among Democrats. Dreamy scenarios will be spun about luring one of the reluctant warriors into the fray, though it is already too late for a new entry to organize for the early primaries. Those could of course transform one or two of the active dwarfs into giants. But if that does not happen, the murmurs about Nunn or Cuomo or Bradley sweeping in and brokering their way to victory could start up anew...
...what ifs," but none of these is mere futuristic fantasy. All of them, in fact, are the goals of research projects now under way at the Media Laboratory, a dazzling new academic facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lab's unique mission is to transform today's passive mass media, particularly TV, into flexible technologies that can respond to individual tastes. Because of advances in computers, says Nicholas Negroponte, 43, the co-founder and director, "all media are poised for redefinition. Our purpose is to enhance the quality of life in an electronic...
...been allowed to escape. In either case, Glass had become a pawn in the growing power struggle in Lebanon between Syria, which for its own purposes is trying to restore order and ensure a secular, religiously diverse Lebanon, and Iran, whose fanatical revolutionary rulers are attempting to transform the country into a vessel of the Islamic revolution. Arabic Syria and non-Arabic Iran are allies on many matters, including the gulf war, but they are fiercely at odds over Lebanon's destiny...
Last week that career change paid off in a spectacular fashion. Lewis struck a single deal that will transform his investment firm, TLC Group, into the largest black-owned business in the U.S. Beating out such rival bidders as Citicorp, Pillsbury and Shearson Lehman Bros., Manhattan-based TLC (stands for "The Lewis Company") signed an agreement to make a $985 million acquisition of Beatrice's International Food division, a profitable hodgepodge of 64 companies in 31 countries that manufacture everything from ice cream to sausages...