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...managed to form an alliance with Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, a crucial maneuver in his rise to the top. Says French Sovietologist Hélène Carrère d'Encausse: "Andropov came to the KGB with a double mission: first, to rebuild an efficient police apparatus, and second, to transform it into a modern, effective instrument of the party. He succeeded on both counts." What the security operation lost in brute force it more than made up in political power under Andropov. In 1973, he was granted full membership on the Politburo, the Central Committee's ruling inner circle...
Nucor and Chaparral are leaders in a new class of companies that make steel in what are called minimills: small, low-cost plants that utilize state-of-the-art technology and, in most cases, nonunion labor. These factories contain none of the costly blast furnaces used to transform raw materials into steel. Instead, they take scrap steel, melt it down and reshape it into new forms. The minimills fashion small, specialized steel products rather than huge beams and sheets. Nucor's steel can be found, for example, in reinforcing rods for concrete walls, traffic barricades and lawnmowers...
...spent ten years trying to raise the public consciousness about municipal bonds, and has gone about the task in an unorthodox way. Instead of relying on dull technical advertisements in financial publications, Lebenthal appears in his own television commercials, declaring that "bonds are my babies." Such tactics have helped transform his small New York City firm, Lebenthal & Co., into one of the U.S.'s largest municipal bond dealers that sell only to individuals...
...passe, but try The Unicorn, The Unicorn and the Lake or, for a change of pace, The Book of Gryphons. Witches might sound like a straight-laced topic for novelist Erica Jong, but don't despair: Jong has conjured up enough juicy tidbits of witchlore to transform even those cackling hags into erotic subjects...
...also proposed another solution along the same lines which would transform Dudley into a purely administrative unit for off campus students who could then affiliate themselves with a residential House to take advantage of the advantage of the social life...