Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked out. Paring it, preening it, pumping it up and pounding it down, the body national is being rejuvenated with a relentless impatience, slimmed with a fanatic dedication. On jogging tracks, in diet clinics and health restaurants and on the operating tables of plastic surgeons, a wholesale attempt to transform the body is avidly purchased with VISA and MasterCard...
...reaction, from both Egyptians and foreigners, was generally favorable. On Tuesday, Mubarak had won 98.46% of the vote in the national referendum that elected him President. In his address to parliament the following day, he spoke with authority and emotion, seemingly making a conscious effort to transform himself from an understudy into a national leader. "He has an important trait," said one former parliamentarian. "He listens, and in this part of the world we need a leader who listens...
Those who hope that attacks on Rev. Moon will destroy his religious movement are likely to be disappointed. The history of religion shows repeatedly that the fate of the founder may transform the faith of the community, unleashing new vitality (Even the apostasy of Sabbetai Zevi [17th c.] did not squelch his movement...
...small, violent Muslim fundamentalist sect known as Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight) may have been involved. This group, a band of urban guerrillas seeking to transform Egypt into a rigid Islamic state, exhorts its members to use "sacred terror" to achieve its objectives and is known to have built cell groups within the armed forces...
Isaiah Berlin once wrote that greatness is the ability to transform paradox into platitude...