Word: transformers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government has tried to transform the northern provinces patrolled by the contras into free-fire zones by clearing them of citizenry, sometimes relocating the populations of entire villages farther south. Disenchanted with the regime's military draft, rationing and repression, however, many campesinos flee in the opposite direction and sign up with the contras...
...beaming with his lights on high last week as he celebrated the biggest and boldest acquisition in his company's history. Two years ago, Smith revealed that the world's largest automaker (1984 sales: $83.9 billion) was courting a mysterious "lulu" of a company, one that would help transform GM from something of a stodgy powerhouse into a high-tech star. Now the Detroit giant was driving off with its prize. After a contest in which it outbid Ford and Boeing, GM agreed to acquire Hughes Aircraft, a major defense contractor (1984 sales: $5.8 billion), for more than $5 billion...
...student that she was taking the place of a man. First of all, that professor could be a woman. In fact, if she were at Wellesley, you can bet her department chair would be a woman. More important, the greatest achievement of the women's movement has been to transform our expectations. Today in America, women can be whatever they want to be. We can walk in space and help our children take their first steps on earth. We can run a corporation and work as wives and mothers. We can be doctors, and we can bake cookies at home...
...serious body building, a will to control the body becomes an ambition to transform it. The flesh, mastered, becomes art: hairless, oiled, gargantuan. In ironic alchemy, all the exertions and self-denials turn the body into a gleaming masterpiece of excess...
...despair. Channing joins him in these sarcastic reveries, but most of the time she has the hard duty of being normal. Sheila is clever enough to keep up with Brian but is essentially undistorted. She feels a mother's love. At the end, while Dale plots and scurries to transform their life, Channing goes about her daily routine. She demonstrates that in art, as in life, the real bravura performance can be quiet fortitude...