Word: transformed
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Reagan's triple play will not, of course, transform the court overnight. By losing Burger and gaining Scalia, Reagan is in a narrow sense simply replacing one conservative with another. Nevertheless, Rehnquist, a shrewd intellect and popular figure on the court, promises to be a much more forceful leader than the plodding, standoffish Burger. "The Rehnquist-Scalia duo is infinitely more dynamic than the conservative wing was with Burger at the helm," says Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. "I would be extremely surprised if over the next several years the effect is not to push the court...
Bertagna manages to transform 250-odd pages of encyclopedia material into attention-grabbing vignettes. Witness the shot of Ryan O'Neal mugging with the 1969 freshman hockey squad--complete with freshman Bertagna--during filming of Love Story at Watson Rink. Bet you never knew that then-freshman coach Bill Cleary '56 helped direct the skating scenes--and stood in for O'Neal during the on-ice shooting...
Administration spokesmen tried to transform public backing for standing up to Gaddafi into support for the less popular policy of aiding the contras. "Americans understand what type of people we have to deal with in this world," said White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan, speaking of Gaddafi, "and they expect that from time to time we as a great power have to assert our right. That has to carry over into the Central America issue. & Sure, contra aid is a divisive issue in a dirty little war, but it takes courage to do what's right in that situation...
DISAPPOINTED WITH THEIR ordinary lives, Snow and Duncan decide to transform their wild dreams into a smoothly executed reality. Enlisting the aid of a zookeeper who sympathizes with the two would-be theives, the two set out to free the lonely reptiles...
...appreciated that the primary function of the Review, at least in our eyes, was to provide undergraduates with a place where they could learn how to write an essay, to edit, to solicit subscriptions: where students could experience working on a political magazine. The institute, I believe, wants to transform the Review from a forum for student writing into a press for bureaucrats and professors...