Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Russia in its 1,000-year history has never had true democracy. It is not possible to transform a society that is used to being governed by dictators into a U.S.-type democracy in one generation. Russians needed help on their way to achieving this, and they never got it. There were very few financial investments that could show Russians that despite the economic hardship, their country was changing. So it is not strange that Russians want to turn back the clock. Most people are fighting for their economic survival. That is why the ex-Communists are getting more power...
...Kerrey's first goals was to transform the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from a political backwater to a one-stop shop for Democratic candidates. To that end, he reversed the committee's ban on soft money, the unrestricted kinds of contributions. Hell, if you're going to fight, you need all the weapons at your disposal. When he took over, there was only one person regularly doing press relations; now there are six. He hired a full-time cartoonist who creates at least one political gibe a day, faxed to thousands of newspapers around the country. And Kerrey insisted...
...absolutely possible for firms to be both profitable and socially responsible. But you should have mentioned the importance of employee ownership in companies you cited, including Springfield ReManufacturing, Starbucks and Procter & Gamble. Although the Clinton Administration has not been active in supporting the concept, employee ownership continues to quietly transform the face of American business. Approximately 15 million employees now own stock in more than 14,000 companies, representing a diverse group in terms of size and industry...
Among the pleasures of Millhauser's fourth novel, which continues in the author's previous vein of treating American history with dreamlike obsession, are descriptions of Manhattan as it began to transform its landscape into a 20th century skyline: an eruption of "modern flowers with veins of steel, bursting out of bedrock." It does not take a Viennese mind doctor to find eroticism in such charged imagery. Building cities is a procreative business, and Dressler is an evocative example of a breed driven to reproduce itself in concrete. A decision to marry a withdrawn woman of no discernible personality...
...cooperative effort between Cambridge and New England Development, a Newton-based design company, the mall's designers hoped to transform the depressed factory district into a thriving new industrial and commercial park...