Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan and Bell have drawn up a proposal to transform the DOE into a foundation receiving limited federal funds. They have not yet presented the proposal to Congress because "the general political information is that it won't pass," says Francis Keppel, a former commissioner of education and and currently a professor at the Ed School Reagan presented his requests for the 1983 educational budget "based on the assumption" that the foundation will be created. Throughout the budget proposals he refers to the Foundation for Educational Assistance rather than...
...things go his way over the next few years, Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson `44 dean of the Medical School, may radically transform the way medicine is taught at Harvard and elsewhere around the country...
...last month the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a series of frosty "observations" on the all-important commission report, faulting the Anglicans for refusing to accept "transubstantiation." (This dogma means that while appearances remain the same, the words of consecration by a priest at Mass transform the entire substance of the bread and wine into Christ's literal body and blood.) However, Eastern Orthodoxy does not require any such formulation either, and Rome nevertheless recognizes its sacraments as "true...
...already thinking the unthinkable, why not admit the bitter truth? One cannot put the genie back into the bottle, beat plutonium into plowshares, or transform the Politburo and KGB into pacifists. Tragically, the idea whose time has come is the very idea of nuclear war. It can and should be postponed by deterrence, but it is sheer utopia to believe that there could never be a miscalculation...
...took a very close look at his opening chapter. "If we want to be honest," Armani says, "it is not only Perry Ellis but Calvin Klein who has gotten inspiration from my things. But I'd say that, perhaps, Calvin Klein is more of a stylist who can transform a good idea into a commercial success. Perry Ellis is more courageous. He produces a fashion more genuinely...