Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care to learn about somebody's sperm count or antidepressant abuse over lunch. Besides, the speaker, not the topic, determines whether a conversation is interesting or not. It's simply a question of finding an exciting approach; the subject matter is secondary. To prove that style can salvage or transform almost everything, we give you several ways of talking about the weather. Take them as mere suggestions, come up with your own, and go crazy in the dining halls...
...organizing a letter-writing campaign to convince him that the nation is calling him to duty once more. He radiates confidence, integrity, reassurance. Yet he is more than upstanding; he is charismatic, what former Secretary of State George Shultz calls "a big presence." His supporters are convinced he can transform American politics into something nobler and more productive. "If he becomes President," says Gaylord Stevens, a Vietnam vet who brought his son in a Boy Scout uniform to hear Powell speak in San Antonio, Texas, as his own father had brought him to hear J.F.K., "we would have a dream...
...cyberspace. In the years since Levy's book, a fourth generation of revolutionaries has come to power. Still abiding by the Hacker Ethic, these tens of thousands of netheads have created myriad computer bulletin boards and a nonhierarchical linking system called Usenet. At the same time, they have transformed the Defense Department-sponsored ARPAnet into what has become the global digital epidemic known as the Internet. The average age of today's Internet users, who number in the tens of millions, is about 30 years. Just as personal computers transformed the '80s, this latest generation knows that...
...years ago, getting your hands on real money meant waiting in line at your (and only your) bank, or knowing the corner shopkeeper well enough to cash a personal check. The ATM changed all that, using a fusion of computer chips, telepad, phone line and dispensing mechanism to transform the way people access their money. Armed with only a plastic card and a functioning index finger, a customer can now obtain cash as easily in Tierra del Fuego as in downtown Tulsa...
...transition at Chiat/Day, which announced plans in January to merge with TBWA International, was abrupt: just six months to transform the workplace from conventional to virtual. Now, employees who choose to go to the office on any given day stop at a ``concierge's desk'' in the lobby to pick up laptop computers and portable phones, which can be programmed with any employee's extension. The workers then head for any one of a dozen or so living room-like settings in a large, red-carpeted open area, plug into nearby modem jacks and get cracking. For the occasional meetings...