Word: transformed
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Aquino's failure to transform popular backing into political backbone may force her to leave land reform to Congress--or, at best, to effect, a weak compromise position. Indeed, the series of draft Executive Orders released periodically of late indicates that a constantly revised compromise is being toyed with; there are reasons to suspect, though, that ultimately Aquino will forego any issuance...
Jerry Jamison's junkyard in rural Weld County, Colo., 40 miles northeast of Denver, is called Tire Mountain. But last week it was easy to confuse it with the Great Smokies. One lightning bolt was all it took to transform Jamison's burial ground for dead treads into a conflagration that spewed a plume of black smoke 9,000 feet into the Rocky Mountain sky. An estimated 2 million tires, 40% of Jamison's inventory, blazed over 20 acres, forcing the temporary evacuation of about 25 families. As scores of fire fighters worked the hoses, a U.S. Forest Service plane...
DIED. Richard Roth Sr., 82, New York City architect and chairman of the board of Emery Roth & Sons, the firm that helped transform the Manhattan skyline with such glass-and-steel monoliths as the World Trade Center towers (1973) and the Pan Am Building (1963); of a heart attack; in New York City...
What they observe is nothing less than a landscape being reborn. Nature is laboring mightily to transform the scoured flanks of the mountain, its debris- filled river systems and chemically polluted ponds and lakes into a facsimile of the sylvan setting that existed before the eruption. To the untutored eye, the evidence of devastation still seems overwhelming. Scientists, however, see a glass filling itself up slowly but surely. Says James MacMahon, head of the biology department at Utah State University: "It's not a forest yet, but the rate of progress is amazing...
...acquisition caps Tsai's efforts to transform Primerica into a financial powerhouse. Since he joined Primerica, the company has shed more than 25 businesses and acquired 15 others. In snaring Smith Barney (1986 revenues: about $1.1 billion), Tsai paid double the assessed value of the firm's assets, which Wall Street analysts called a bargain...