Word: transformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...textbook feat of corporate damage control, he agreed last week to spend $176 million to end the lawsuit filed by black employees whom Texaco has been stonewalling for years. The pact contains the most lucrative settlement ever of a U.S. discrimination case. If wholeheartedly implemented, it could transform Texaco from a bastion of bigotry to an oasis of equal opportunity. But Bijur deserves no applause for all this: he had no other choice...
...Campus Life and Student Affairs committees have to plan new events, the less likely they are to be successful. Increasing the grants allocation contributes to a cycle of decline for these other committees, making them more susceptible to future budget-cutters. Down the road, this change is likely to transform the council as a whole into a clearing-house for grants, not a true student government. Elizabeth T. Bangs '97 Andrew A. Green...
...Laboratories and Unisys have largely switched from hardware to software. The biggest fallen giant is Digital Equipment Corp., which last week reported a larger than expected quarterly loss of $66 million. Once the No. 2 computer maker after IBM, DEC has downsized in a so far unsuccessful effort to transform itself into a chip company...
...that many states, including Massachusetts, have lately adapted stricter laws to deal with the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. Today, California has even decided to chemically castrate the offenders. While rape reform laws are needed, this is a far cry from what must be done if we are to transform a culture that fosters and condones sexual violence against women. As Emilie Buchwald comments in Transforming a Rape Culture, "Editorial responses call for more severe punishments for rapists, for longer prison sentences, even for the death penalty...[but] programs for offenders are merely holding actions to deal with today...
...Should [our leaders] be quietly inscrutable? Should they have the power to transform great crowds [with their oratory]?" he asked. "We seem to yearn for a touch of Napoleon in our head of state...