Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple's recent $13 million donation will provide the University with more than half of the $25 million needed to transform the Union into a new Humanities Center which will bear the name Barker Hall...
...officials insist that time will transform the raw recruits into an effective authority. Now they lean heavily on 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, but they will soon be expected to step in for the entire contingent--unless the Security Council approves Preval's urgent request to retain 1,800 for another six months. Even though the peacekeepers may serve only as a psychological deterrent, the Americans have been vital to U.N. credibility. But at the very moment when the country's insecurity is growing, the U.S. is leaving. A senior American diplomat familiar with Haiti says, "Of course...
...life that is passing them by. In Beautiful Girls, however, doping off is portrayed as the great no-growth industry of a small New England town buried in snow and youthful regrets. And because its creators bring to the topic of fecklessness its opposite qualities--ambition, energy, intelligence--they transform it into something interesting...
...last week at the Union Pacific railroad so he could take a day off to go hear Forbes speak. "I've seen him on TV; now I wanted to meet him in person," says Sharp. "He's got some interesting ideas. I don't know whether he can transform them into action. People are taking a hard look at him now. Someone in my precinct said he's the Ross Perot within the Republican Party...
...Pittsburgh, the third of five children, and worked his way up out of the chorus line to Broadway stardom with his tough, taut performance in 1940's Pal Joey, stated his needs and his aspirations. These extended beyond the standard American desire to transcend one's past and transform one's limitations. For he was part of a generation that wanted to reinvent both the stage musical and the movie musical. It saw no reason why song and dance shouldn't reflect the realities of everyday life--and at the same time illuminate our everynight dream life. On Broadway...