The mayor of London also claimed the city's transport system - the focus of much concern ahead of the Games - is being transformed.

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So President Eisenhower helped make it possible to build an Interstate Highway System, and that, too, transformed the nation -- as much as the railways had.

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The Nucor system was forged by Kenneth Iverson (1925--2002), who transformed a failing nuclear instruments company into a hugely successful chain of steel minimills.

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CORILA a consortium for co-ordinating research concerning the Venice lagoon system says that the lagoon is being transformed from a marsh into a completely marine environment.

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