Word: transformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese life. The new Shanghai stock exchange is built in the shape of a hollowed square to help trap positive energy, a nod to the ancient geomantic rituals of feng shui. And members of China's new middle class are embracing both state-of-the-art technology to transform their economy and 5,000-year-old superstitions to support their lives. "It turns out that the majority of businesspeople in China believe in the god of fortune," sighs Fu, the Marxist leader. "And one-sixth of the people believe in the existence of gods or demons. One-twelfth believe they...
...task that demands a miracle worker. The first permanent dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will attempt to take a $350-million endowment and transform it into a world-renowned center for learning at an institution with no students, no permanent teachers and no specific focus...
...bombs exploding around their country, looming war in the Caucasus and rumors of a political crisis to worry about, Russians have written off the money scandals as dirty business as usual. But in the U.S. the corruption seems to symbolize reform gone wrong, a wholesale failure of Russia to transform itself into a working free-market democracy. And as the partisan Campaign 2000 machinery in Washington revs up, what better rallying cry for challengers than "Who lost Russia...
...emphasized two meanings of the word "translation": to transform or transmute as well as to change into another language...
...during his long career. Now a huge survey of his work is being launched at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and landing six stops later at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. But for all the overexertions of the catalog's scholarly essays to transform Rockwell from influential illustrator to grand artiste, he remains what he will always be: our deftest draftsman of democracy's dreams. That should be enough. WHEN Opens...