The change continues a transformation going back to the Times' 2003 purchase of The Washington Post Co.

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The transfer of knowhow and this back-and-forth of knowledge transformation is the unique aspect of Designworks.

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Londoner Slater said she had been lucky enough to see the park during its construction phase: "The transformation from all the mud and machinery back then is amazing, " she told CNN.

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Little did most designers realize that as far back as 1995, Microsoft was beginning a long slow transformation that would, ironically, turn them into another ally for web designers.

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"Post-traumatic growth is a new level of functioning, a new perspective, a transformation, so that people don't bounce back to where they were, they become something significantly different, " he explains.

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Jimmy Carter was president when LaPierre first went to work for the NRA in 1977, and for the past 22 years LaPierre has been the organization's executive vice president, steering it through a transformation from a clubby marksmanship group into a political movement adept at beating back efforts to tighten firearms regulations.

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It is weakly overseen without an independent audit and thus is able to intermediate the transformation of bad, illiquid assets into money (and near money) and then back again into valuable financial assets, all done secretly and anonymously.

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