Word: transformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future is extremely bright," Hausman said."In the next several weeks, Israeli, Jordanian andPalestinian economists will begin to transform anagreement on paper into policies for free tradeand joint economic development...
...tempting to think of Nigel Short as an English Bobby Fischer. Transform Short's Lancastrian accent into Brooklynese, remove the wire-rimmed glasses, and Nigel becomes Bobby. After all, Short and Fischer are the only non- Russians to play in the finals of the World Chess Championship since 1948, and both were child prodigies who grew up to challenge the established order of the chess world...
Violence from both sides is an obvious pitfall. If negotiators do not hurry along specifics for enacting the deal, naysayers could niggle it to death. The P.L.O. must transform its loose structure, unruly factions and preference for ambiguity into practical governance. Arab states, which have always sought to keep the Palestinian issue under their thumb, will need to be mollified into cooperation. But since the Palestinian millstone has prevented them from bringing prosperity to their own societies, they appear ready to go along...
...insist they are taking, in contrast to the approach favored by Mikhail Gorbachev when he ran the Soviet Union. "Communist parties around the world have faced our same dilemma, the sequence of reform," says Monreal. "In Cuba's case, the choice was to promote economic reform first. That will transform the state." The yummies admit that major alterations in the political system are unlikely anytime soon. "How can you open up political reform while the economy is a mess? It's suicidal," argues political scientist Santiago Perez Benitez. "Gorbachev did that, but now there's no one in Russia...
...resulting social upheaval could transform one of the nation's most divisive political debates by making abortion far more difficult to regulate. And eventually it could mean abortions will become simpler, safer and more accessible not only throughout the U.S. but also around the world...