Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer automatic. "A lot of people go through a great internal debate every time they're approached for money," says Bob Prentice, San Francisco's ) homeless coordinator. "The hostile people just want to get rid of them, and the sympathetic ones feel impotent. They know they can't transform people's lives with a quarter, but they still want to help...
What is different now is that the P.L.O. has never before been under such pressure to seize the initiative. Hussein's decision and the growing impatience of leaders of the eight-month-old uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to transform their revolt into political gains may finally force Arafat to compromise. Says Edward Said, a prominent Palestinian American who is a professor at Columbia University: "The P.L.O. realizes that this is a historical opportunity that should not be muffed...
...Faustian temptation at the core of both the novel and the hit Broadway musical it inspired, Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd is a paunchy real estate salesman condemned to root for his hapless hometown team, the now defunct Washington Senators. The devil, who prefers the moniker Applegate, offers to transform Joe into the greatest slugger in the history of the game. Applegate's price is the usual recompense: a paltry -- albeit eternal -- shift in allegiance. Since this is fiction, Joe resists more than most. But ultimately, how can an immortal soul compete with the gifts of youth, grace, coordination and tape...
Yang's eleven-grade hierarchy is the latest in a series of military reforms designed to transform the once poorly equipped and highly politicized revolutionary army into a modern, professional force. The ranking system will be accompanied by the introduction of trimly tailored uniforms complete with stars, flaps, epaulets and braid to replace the regulation green mandated for all soldiers by the fiercely egalitarian...
Haupt is the type of boxer who will catch Tyson off guard by picking at his mind. Haupt has the power to transform the ring into a doctor's couch by playing "the psychological game" with the champ. Haupt is 23 years wiser than Tyson, and, as he shrewdly notes, the champ must "have an Achilles heel someplace." Dan Haupt of Overland Park, Kansas, could be Tyson's Paris you know, fight fans, the Trojan...