Word: transformer
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...vision from the vault in Virginia is of "information warfare"--now the hottest concept in the halls of the Pentagon. Info warriors hope to transform the way soldiers fight. Their goal: to exploit the technological wonders of the late 20th century to launch rapid, stealthy, widespread and devastating attacks on the military and civilian infrastructure of an enemy. In interviews with scores of military, intelligence and Administration officials, TIME discovered that the Pentagon has wide-ranging plans to revolutionize the battlefield with information technology much as tanks did in World War I and the atom bomb in World...
President Clinton has denounced it, Disney's buyout of ABC may have foreshadowed it, and thelong-distance telephone and cable companies are lobbying furiously to make it the law of the land. After midnight Thursday, the House is expected to pass a major telecommunications reform package that could transform the marketplace, freeing cable-TV and local and long-distance telephone companies to get into each other's businesses. Critics, including the President, worry that such massive deregulation would encourage media firms like Disney to merge into near-monopolies. "They're taking it up in the middle of the night, when...
Also noteworthy is Rudd, who is so endearing as the nerdy but lovable Josh, that he helps transform Clueless from being just a silly no-brainer, to a teen romantic comedy that you won't be able to help falling in love with. Rudd has a recurring role on the TV series Sisters...
...obvious as soon as Israel and the P.L.O. announced the Oslo agreement that the main test for Arafat would be to transform himself from symbol-agitator-roving propagandist to ruler-conciliator-at-home pragmatist. A year after his return to his homeland, he is still struggling with the challenge. His brand of leadership remains better suited to an activist on the run than an administrator on the job. His strength is political theater, not practical policy...
...Jeanne Tripplehorn), the girl hitches a ride on the trimaran of an outsider--part man, part fish--known as the Mariner (Costner). If anyone in this scurvy world can help them, he can. Hey, he can do anything. As we see in the opening scene, he knows how to transform his urine into drinking water...