Word: transformed
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...PUCC's goals to try to transform the UC into an organization that raises issues for campus debate," Cheng said
...other words, people in the developed world would have to completely transform their society, and rich countries like the U.S. would have to subsidize poor but fast-developing nations like China. And that's just to roll CO2 emissions back to 1990 levels, the goal most environmentalists endorse. To stave off global warming completely, Lindzen maintains, "you would have to reduce emissions to where they were in 1920." Despite noble proclamations issuing from meetings like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, that is virtually inconceivable. As economist Henry Jacoby of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management puts...
...most important mission of the council this semester is to prepare for the direct presidential elections. They could transform the council...
Purdy adds that the group's ideal is to transform council elections and meetings into debates involving the "coherent articulation of definite positions...
T.Coraghessan Boyle is an overpraised novelist with an unpleasant habit of sneering at his own cardboard characters. Some writers can carry this off, some can't. Aldous Huxley adopted a toplofty attitude toward his creatures, but he had the intellectual force to transform snobbery into satire. Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor. Boyle merely sounds as if he needs an antacid...