These men played hardball, seeking to crush commercial competitors, but they did successfully transform America and the world.

这些人手段强硬，排挤竞争者，不过也同时改变了美国和世界。

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His daring takeover of Merrill Lynch was the latest in a series of high-profile acquisitions that helped transform Bank of America into a national powerhouse.

一系列的引人注目的收购中，最近的一次是他大胆收购美林证券，这帮助美洲银行成为一家全国性巨头银行。

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Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Pennsylvanian who signed the Declaration of Independence, wrote that the war was only the first step in the Revolution's destiny to transform America and the world.

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We could transform America right now, rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our airports and also rebuilding a new infrastructure for the 21st century -- high-speed rail and a new generation of air traffic control that could actually save 15 percent of fuel costs and as a consequence reduce global warming.

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When he became president in 1913, he boasted that he could transform Latin America, if not the rest of the world, into constitutional democracies in America's image.

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