Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distance giant, announced a deal to form a worldwide media partnership, one that could add as much as $2 billion to Murdoch's buying power. A year ago, after MCI sold a 20% stake of itself to British Telecommunications for $4.3 billion, it began looking for a partner to transform its worldwide phone network into pathways for "content"-whatever a computer or TV screen can receive, from info-services to movies. "You can hardly think of content without the name of Rupert Murdoch coming to the fore," says MCI chairman Bert Roberts...
...Pretty Women (from the musical Sweeney Todd) that is mature and mysterious, dark and sweet. Grover Washington Jr., with charismatic sax runs, turns the understated melody of Every Day a Little Death (from A Little Night Music) into something direct and forceful. And Bryson and vocalist Nancy Wilson transform Loving You (from Passion) into a soul-bearing vocal duet that haunts and enchants. Show tunes have rarely sounded so rich, so smart and so good...
This dilemma is typical of Amis' writing. As in London Fields, the details in The Information are often brilliantly rendered, but the big picture doesn't quite add up. Still, Amis' ability to transform the mundane into the morbidly funny makes the novel worth reading. The passages describing Richard are gems...
...Undergraduate Council is still far from perfect. Recently, several student leaders formed a campus activist group with the goal of improving the council as an advocate for student concerns. The organization, named the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC), seeks to transform the council into a center of campus debate...
Four prominent environmentalists discussed bills under consideration by the U.S. Senate which would transform the face of American environmental policy at the Kennedy School of Government last night...