Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Said Bush after his first summit as president, "I am optimistic that as the West works patiently together and increasingly cooperates with the Soviet Union, we can realize a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship into one of enduring cooperation...
...greeting-card sharpies and the flower-power florists must lament a national holiday in which they are doomed to play such a minor role. For if one cares to send the very best, one flies home for Thanksgiving. Even the TV networks have never figured out a way to transform Thanksgiving into a prime-time pageant, which is why the Macy's Parade still takes place in God's own morning light...
...than race. The Wilder camp braced for a close contest, even after Coleman, perhaps their weakest Republican challenger, won a bruising three-way G.O.P. primary. Coleman immediately launched a fusillade of negative spots, dredging up the personal charges against Wilder from the 1985 campaign. Without a cutting issue to transform the debate, the internal calculus in the Wilder campaign was that its candidate was mired at around 45% support, partly because of Democratic defections stemming from a rancorous coal miners' strike in southwestern Virginia and a Labor Day riot among black college students in Virginia Beach...
...mission -- to transform Uganda from a backward country to an advanced country. The economy is the base of stability. It affects your social programs, your political stability, everything...
...hero's cheesy superantics come straight from Woolworth's. Low-rent special effects have also turned War of the Worlds -- an update of the H.G. Wells novel and 1953 movie -- into a dreary stalemate. Last season the evil aliens seemed to do little but abduct unsuspecting earthlings and transform them Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style into blank-eyed automatons to do their bidding. A second wave of aliens has arrived this season with a slightly different plan: to abduct unsuspecting earthlings and make clones of them to do their bidding. Just how that is an improvement remains...