Word: transformed
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...America this side of nuclear arms. And the announcement last week that the Administration was reversing field on those policies and had decided to ban mineral development on national lands looks increasingly like a ruse. In fact, the great turn around may actually make it easier for industry to transform America into one great slag heap...
Sudden wealth can transform the way the entrepreneurs live and work. A few unabashedly flaunt their new riches. WJ. (Jerry) Sanders III, 45, who delivered milk and dug ditches while growing up in Chicago, started Advanced Micro Devices, an early semiconductor manufacturer, in the dining room of his home in 1969. Today he owns houses in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles and in Malibu, and has a Bentley, a Ferrari and a Rolls-Royce. A year ago, Sanders rented San Francisco's Civic Center to treat 7,000 workers to a $350,000 party. Atari Founder Nolan...
...spreading practice of discharging less seriously afflicted mental patients. Hayes has received inquiries from concerned people in 25 cities, including Chicago, Columbus and Portland, Me. Can he offer any help? they ask. He has decided he must go on trying. A founder of what he hopes to transform into a national coalition for the homeless, he will leave his $40,000-plus job on Wall Street in the next few weeks to work full time for the new organization and the homeless clients whom no one else has been moved to represent...
...Ethiopia, or Gustemain. And the New Left and the civil rights movement and the Freedom Summer and Moratorium Day and SDS and smoking dope--what did they mean except this world stinks, and we've got to make it over. But the love wasn't strong enough to transform us, and carpenters repaired the CFIA, and now the President of The Crimson is a Park Avenue lawyer...
...goal is to get at the causes, not the effects; to transform mean and then let then transform their world. Yeah, and how? Maybe through organized religion, a force for change in Poland and Latin America, the only force on this earth that with any regularity seeks to change wean for the better. But maybe not, too, because the same hatreds that have corrupted the rest of the world have corrupted religion in so many places--in this country, for instance, where some of the largest groups of Christians have become rabid fans of the New Right. Maybe through...