Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...register. Some may sign up now that Reagan has promised Justice Department prosecutions, but the experience of Vietnam shows that conscription would make criminals out of hundreds of thousands of the nation's youth. If the government attempted to hunt down and jail that many people, it would transform the country into nothing less than a police state. The late Sixties and early Seventies also taught that the draft is used as a means of suppressing domestic dissent. There are many who remember the special attention anti-war organizers received from the Selective Service and local draft boards...
Italy's Prime Minister, Giovanni Spadolini, called the Red Brigades' action "a quantum leap in which the terrorists are trying to transform their armed movement into an armed party." He said that the Italian secret service was investigating possible ties between the Red Brigades and West Germany's Red Army Faction, a band of left-wing terrorists mentioned as potential allies by Dozier's captors. The West German group has been linked by authorities to the September attempt near Heidelberg on the life of General Frederick Kroesen, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Said Spadolini...
...also on platforms, playing two pianos, electric organ, harp, cimbalom, vibraphone and xylophone, with each instrument wired for sound. A half-dozen technicians operate a bank of machines on ground level behind the conductor. The most important is the advanced 4X computer developed at IRCAM that can alter and transform live musical sounds with a speed that allows it to function as effectively as a new instrument itself. The performance-the French premiere-took place in suburban Bobigny in an auditorium resembling a gymnasium, because no hall could be found in Paris to suit the nonproscenium requirements of the piece...
...been the Reagan Administration's glowing star, casting light on all the murky, mystifying tax and spending statistics that his wondrous computers at the Office of Management and Budget continually cranked out. He was the farm-bred, Harvard-educated wizard who would transform those numbers into the magic by which Ronald Reagan's economic recovery program would prove a smashing success. Even David Stockman's adversaries admired his effectiveness as a promoter of the Reagan cause. At his regular breakfast last week with Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Chief Economic Adviser Murray Weidenbaum, Stockman was delighted...
...Before Elvis there was nothing," John Lennon stated in one of his last interviews. The exaggeration was permissible; Elvis Presley, a Memphis hillbilly shouter, did, in fact, radically transform popular music in America. Prior to "the Pelvis," the rhythms of rock were buried in the funk of "race" music. In his wake came the generations of rock compounds: -abilly, acid, punk, and, inevitably, Beatlemania. The first to mesmerize the millions of white teen-agers of mid-'50s America, Elvis all too soon degenerated into rhinestone rumbling, and his act, his records and films, even his bloated, tragic end, contained...