Word: transformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOYERS: Do you know yet what, in a future episode, is going to transform Anakin Skywalker to the dark side...
...South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, the crisis has also created an opportunity. Since taking office a year ago, Kim has launched one of the most ambitious economic makeovers any country has ever attempted. His aim is to transform a system built on debt, endless expansion and limitless export markets for industrial goods and consumer durables into a globally competitive economy that is as nimble as the rapidly changing marketplace demands. To make it work, he has placed his bets on creating a flexible, U.S.-style labor market in which companies are free to hire and fire as they please...
...friendliness, though, can quickly transform into characteristic intensity. Shannon E. Tracey, a Mather House senior, who formerly rowed novice Radcliffe crew, warns that "it does get intense, and while it's a different kind of experience--we're a little more rowdy in the boat than varsity crew is--it's pretty serious as far as goals. We want...
...Anderson of San Francisco set out to write down his past as honestly as he could, but that was only one of his motives. "I wanted to write a good story, and I didn't have any other story to write, so I wrote my own," he says. To transform an ordinary life into extraordinary reading, Anderson, 64, has put in a few hours each day, five days a week, for nine years, and is now polishing a 1,200-page draft. His only brush with formal training was a class 12 years ago at San Francisco State...
...good fortune of future students, LeBow is currently following a pre-teaching track (She is enrolled in the Undergraduate Teaching Education Program, UTEP). But the vast majority of undergraduates at Harvard who weekly or bi-weekly transform from student to teacher are not necessarily so inclined. According to Assistant Dean for Public Service Judith H. Kidd, about 2,500 students participate in public service each year and at least 75 percent of these students are engaged in some form of tutoring or mentoring program...