Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard received a $7 million donation to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center, University officials announced yesterday...
...confidence of divine sponsorship: America was lit from within. Later, Americans adopted the more aggressive myth of Manifest Destiny. Curiously, the members of the baby-boom generation came to believe that the ideas of divine sponsorship and Manifest Destiny were intended to apply to them. Now the boomers, who transform every moment that they encounter and every twig that they step upon into unprecedented trauma or revelation, have arrived at midlife crisis. Noises of the generation's falling hair and its disillusionments -- is that all there is? -- are muzzing in the American background. A certain unease with grownups maybe...
...Soviet Union, the only capitalist was the state. It owned everything from the ice-cream kiosks on city streets to town-size tank factories. One of Russian President Boris Yeltsin's toughest challenges has been to transform the government's monopoly into a free market, and to do it equitably. "We need millions of property owners," he says, "and not just a handful of millionaires...
...image that has stuck most stubbornly to Dan Quayle from the 1988 campaign is that of a deer caught in the headlights: a helpless thing frozen in the path of destruction. In Houston, however, Quayle labored -- with some success -- to transform himself into a snarling attack dog, on the model of such G.O.P. vice-presidential nominees as Bob Dole and Spiro Agnew. Before the largest prime-time TV audience he has addressed, Quayle abandoned his attempted oratorical gravitas and delivered a withering attack on what he has called the "liberal cultural elite," which he has targeted to help distract attention...
...Wildlife Conservation International, has taken us to parts of the forest we believe no human has ever seen. We are catching a glimpse of the rarest treasure on this crowded planet: an ecosystem as pristine today as it was 12,000 years ago, before humans began to transform the earth. Our journey into unknown territory is a grand adventure, one that is as exciting as it is daunting. At one point, Fay must persuade apprehensive Pygmy trackers to continue through the Ndoki, for legend holds that the forest is home to Mokele Mbembe, a dinosaur-like creature that can kill...