Word: transformed
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...once planned to be a rabbi but switched from religion to philosophy at Haverford College, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and practiced briefly before joining Time Inc. in 1972. His notion of bouncing movies off satellites and into living rooms from Boston to Berkeley helped transform Home Box Office from a struggling service into the biggest pay channel in the U.S.; combined with its sister Cinemax service, it now has nearly 24 million subscribers...
...name Tikkun comes from the Hebrew, meaning to heal, repair and transform the world. Given that name, it's not hard to figure out that this magazine is a liberal/progressive alternative to Commentary and its neoconservative readership...
...this doesn't work. By the report's own figures, more than eight in 10 of this 89 percent cited financial reasons as their primary or secondary consideration. Harvard offers need-based aid to every student who qualifies. Trying to transform a debate about how to fight discrimination into a gays-versus-poor conflict is a disingenuous fudge. If students' major concern is money, Harvard provides it without ROTC...
...move was an effort to reap hard currency and is part of Russian President Boris Yeltsin's goal to transform the republic's stagnant, centrally controlled economy to a free-market system...
...Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, a hero of the resistance to August's aborted hard-line coup, reformers in the city are trying to pull St. Petersburg out of Moscow's shadow and transform it into a gateway to the West. Some even suggest returning the political capital to St. Petersburg, though Sobchak says his task is "to revive St. Petersburg as the financial, cultural and scientific capital of Russia." For a precedent, Sobchak turns to the city's founder, Peter the Great, the Czar who set out to westernize the backward Russian Empire. "For 10 years Peter the Great tried...