Word: transformational
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...while there's no question that the historic window of opportunity through which Rabin had moved in a bid to transform Israel's long-term relationship with its neighbors is closing fast, Sharon's reading of the long-term regional dynamic may be dangerously flawed, too. There's no question that economic and demographic factors look set to dramatically weaken the Arab regimes around Israel, but where Sharon sees this as improving the prospects for peace, others are more inclined to see it as raising the danger of war as the pressure of domestic social collapse prompts Arab regimes...
...finally!) takes a backseat to someone else on the following track; no surprise there, as it’s Madonna herself who takes control of “Paradise (Not For Me)”, which also appears on her album Music. La Ciccone’s smooth vocals transform the track into something resembling a fine wine, smooth, fiery, and romantic. Unfortunately, this vintage is a little too bland considering the famous source. While nothing particularly groundbreaking, it does at least show that Mirwais can do better work behind the scenes...
...depicted their own life stories—a political emigrant from Belgrade and an economic emigrant from Bosnia, an intellectual and a gastarbaiter—roommates in the poor suburbs of New York. The personal émigré experiences of the actors and of the audience combined to transform the play into a means of self-analysis, attempting to resolve the personal dilemmas of the Serbian emigrants in America today. In the words of Sasa Lekic, a Serbian émigré in Boston, Dimic and Lausevic successfully managed to “break the border of the stage...
Nimble and flexible are not words normally ascribed to Boeing, and leaving town won't magically transform the company, which has a mixed record in its efforts to diversify. At the same time, it risks taking its eye off the jet business, which still accounts for about 60% of sales. But running a lean holding company removed from its operating divisions is the fashionable corporate architecture these days. And Condit believes a neutral perch is the best place to decide how to feed each of his hungry corporate chicks...
...success or failure of guerrilla warfare is measured less by the guerrillas' ability to capture and hold territory than by their ability to use armed actions to transform the political situation. By that measure, have the separatist guerrillas succeeded in Macedonia...