Word: transformed
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Instead, the White House is pushing the Pentagon to transform thousands of Iraqi security guards into paramilitary police officers. Capable militiamen account for only 5,000 of the 90,000 Iraqis now undertaking some sort of security work alongside U.S. forces. The Administration wants to triple the number in three months. That would require training these guards in a scant few weeks...
...largely remained quiet. Also, Khodorkovsky's father is Jewish, and it's accepted political wisdom in the circles around him that in light of the the prevailing social attitudes, no Jew could win the presidency in Russia. Still, it now emerges that Khodorkovsky was devising a campaign to transform Russia into a parliamentary system, and we're told that may have even imagined himself as premier at some point in the future...
...Staff is fully justified in calling for improvements to the currently dismal course advising system, as it has done time and again. But online filing of study cards would seriously undermine the College’s efforts in that direction. Instead, it would serve to permanently transform the current system, which has the potential to be rectified, into one of impersonal, amazon.com-style course registration...
...reaching consumers who want to buy a single song or game. Microsoft senior vice president Pieter Knook claims that the emergence of a micropayment infrastructure will unleash a torrent of software - development activity that will deliver as yet unimagined programs to the market. This, he says, will transform the mobile-phone industry into one that is software powered. Gates told the Geneva audience that such synergies will "bring [voice and data] together in ways that people eventually will just take for granted...
Additionally, the season’s hottest jewelry, including long earrings, multiple-charm pendants on a gold chain and piled-on chains and pearls can “transform any outfit and keep you feeling fashionable...