Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over, but the sentiment should not be. We came to Harvard for an education, but producing papers and taking exams alone do not qualify one for entry into the society of educated men and women. In order to fully claim the right to call ourselves that, we must transform the passively-gathered knowledge of classes into active engagement with the larger community...
...community has hardly survived unscathed. One need only look across Massachusetts Avenue at the hulking 14-story monstrosity that looms over the Square, or down Magazine Street at the 10-story upscale apartment building that is helping transform what was once a stable residential community into a transient housing market. We who live and work in Central Square look at these "developments" and say "Never again!" But there are those who cannot see communities and people and human needs, those who can see only money. And they look at our community and they see big profits--millions of dollars...
...name of a baby to checking out a volleyball, requires the approval of some sour time server who will straighten the carbons between eight copies of the appropriate form and begin his questioning with "Granmuzzer's maiden name?" I think it would be irresponsible for Lionel Jospin to transform French functionaries into cool guys who cut corners. Remember, we helped all these people out during the war. The least they can do is conform to our prejudices...
Golub's most ambitious plan so far remains only a gleam in his eye. He wants to transform the credit-card business by plugging U.S. banks into the American Express network and thereby enabling the lenders to issue Amex credit cards. That's the last thing Visa and MasterCard want to see happen, and they've stymied Golub with bylaws that prevent their U.S. bank partners from offering other cards. Golub may get some help from the Justice Department, which is reportedly investigating the competitive behavior of the two big credit-card associations...
...reverted areas represent a broad swath of the national territory, and their development could transform Panama. But there are more skeptics than optimists. Panama's dream is to become another Singapore--a prosperous banking, transportation and tourism hub exploiting to the fullest its ownership of one of the world's most important waterways. The alternate, nightmare vision, unfortunately, is of a nation handed a great resource that it then wastes through corruption and mismanagement...