Word: transformers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern times: an encrusted political and economic system being brought, stumbling and blinking in amazement, into the light of a new era. In the tradition of Peter the Great, who opened up Russia to the West almost 300 years ago to rescue it from backwardness, Gorbachev is trying to transform, neither slowly nor surely, every aspect of his nation's political, economic and psychological life...
...University who heads family-owned coffee and pharmaceutical businesses. Cristiani became active in ARENA a year before the 1984 presidential election. Its candidate then, party founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, was strongly opposed by the U.S. because of his alleged ties to the notorious death squads. Party leaders, eager to transform ARENA's tough image, chose Cristiani to personify the new nonviolent party...
...added that the pace of reform in the Soviet Union remains slow. "It's one thing to proclaim a set of new ideas--it's quite another to transform them into a new set of textbooks," Nikandrov said...
...cinematography and directoral attention to detail make Pelle, which was named best film at the Cannes Film Festival last year, an outstanding movie. These qualities are evident in an early scene where Lasse and Pelle have just entered their new living quarters. Although the two have been able to transform this sty into an orderly and respectable bedroom, they could not get rid of the many flies...
Kinder, Gentler Conservatives Dept.: The homeless should be happy to learn that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp has pledged to aggressively enforce the McKinney Act, a measure that would transform unused, federally owned buildings into homeless shelters. Kemp's new-found enthusiasm for the bill is strange, considering that he voted against the act as a member of Congress...