Word: transformation
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...most issues where his leadership is on the line, Dole has charged his chief of staff with working out the differences and finding a compromise that can carry the votes. One basic problem is that the bill has engendered a fight between competing regions. Its chief aim is to transform welfare from an entitlement -- that is, a program in which Washington gives states enough money to pay benefits to everyone who is eligible -- to one where funding is handed out in block grants of fixed sums. But as Sunbelt Senators contemplate dividing up an annual $16.8 billion in welfare funding...
Civil libertarians were outraged. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, complained that the indecency portion of the bill would transform the vast library of the Internet into a children's reading room, where only subjects suitable for kids could be discussed. "It's government censorship," said Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "The First Amendment shouldn't end where the Internet begins...
...Today annual gross television-broadcasting revenues in the U.S. are conservatively estimated at about $25 billion; by itself, a bare minimum of 1% of broadcast-television revenues would pay annually for $250 million of children's programming; 3% would provide $750 million, a sum with which Americans could transform not only children's television but childhood itself...
...class of 1945 is your grandmother's age. We tested only three months of prewar college life: Pearl Harbor and V-E Day bracketed our years here. The wartime changes began to transform the College...
...situation only more absurd. I applaud Harvard for its efforts to recruit these highly qualified faculty members, yet I stop short of saying that the University has done enough in this area. It's a nice start, but a little progress should be followed by more strides to transform both this student body and the faculty into true symbols of diversity...