Word: transformative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formal independence. This does not mean that Quebec should not follow the separatist route if it expects substantial changes and benefits in other fields. The promise of real change, however, is lacking. It is by no means clear that formal independence for Quebec will do anything more than transform its highly nationalistic provincial civil service into a national bureaucracy...
...available to virtually anyone who wants it. A completely new understanding of human potential is rapidly becoming established. I would also like to point out that there is a very reasonable intellectual understanding of how the realization of the full potential of the individuals of society would automatically transform the whole of society into an unprecedented era of peace and progress, a true "age of enlightenment...
...next step, according to Harrison, is to transform Norfolk into a "major opera center," with summer and light opera and a touring company. "If we've done what we've done in three years, we can certainly accomplish that," says Harrison confidently. If Mary is any measure, she is right...
...costs $2,000 per ton (double the figure of five years ago) to build a new plant, according to Cornell Maier, president of Kaiser. That considerable figure does not include the costs of developing sources of bauxite, the reddish, earthy raw material, or of electricity, which is used to transform the ore by a reduction process into metal. Even though the industry is operating at full capacity, its rate of return on investment falls short of the target of at least 10%. Says Maier: "We need considerably higher prices to justify new investment...
While grade anxiety abates after the first year, Turow says, 2Ls and 3Ls find other sources for the competitiveness that can subtly transform a student. Fresh carrots dangling from the ends of the sticks, but the same old donkeys after them. "People have said to me the competition for jobs makes the competition for grades look trivial," Turow says. "Performance in class is no longer important; it's who made you an offer and flew you down to Washington that becomes the new status, and some people crave it. People will back-bite, and go interview with law firms...