Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medium to anatomize America's fetishizing of the automobile. And Cronenberg is the very guy for the job. His first commercial film, Fast Company, was about stock-car racing; his brilliant remake of The Fly was a parable of love, decay and death, of man misguidedly using machinery to transform himself...
...transform Northeast's "culture, values, processes and standards--and get the plants safely back online," Kenyon says, he has brought in new managers from leading utilities around the country. He hired a former Northeast whistle blower named Paul Blanch to work on a revamped employee-concerns program, created a dedicated "recovery team" for each plant and asked the demoralized and skeptical Millstone rank and file to help him weed out problem managers. (Both an NRC Special Project Office and an "independent corrective-action-verification team" of industry consultants will oversee the work; plant restart will require a commission vote.) This...
...with his own shortcomings an d failures -- notoriously poor management, an inability to win the support of the top echelons of a police departments still deeply entrenched with Gates loyalists, and very mixed reviews on whether he had made good on his promise to transform Gates% 27 department into a model of community policing. His progress on reforming the discrimination-riddled LAPD has also been slow: three years ago women in the department filed a class action suit,still in the works, alleging discrimination and sexual harassment as well as a pattern of retribution against those who filed complaints. Still...
...must transform reform efforts from widening opportunities to increasing parental and peer involvement," Steinberg said...
...provide a setting in which students with diverse backgrounds can share their experiences, intra-section debate is an invaluable asset. But such debate cannot occur when section sizes exceed 20 students. Voices struggle to be heard over one another, and the constant commotion eventually forces teaching fellows to transform their sections into lectures or question/answer sessions...