He moved here in the 1960's to study philosophy at the University of Chicago, and has spent much of the past 30 years wandering the city trying to transform it into a place that recycles its waste, reuses its old machinery, composts its scraps and creates an alternative economy that is, in his eyes, both sustainable and just.
I came from the world of invisible and tried to transform it into visibility".
General Motors has gone to considerable effort to revamp Cadillac, trying to transform it from a dowdy-but-proud brand for senior citizens into a full-line maker of luxury sedans, sports cars, S.U.V.'s and pickups.
For Mr. Liddell, who sends e-mail messages to colleagues at all hours and is a PowerPoint whiz, the prospect of joining Microsoft as an outsider and trying to transform it into a financially oriented acquisition machine was daunting.
Mr. Miller took D. W. Griffith's 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation," which for all its other credentials (masterpiece, milestone in the history of cinema, etc). is indeed racist and tried to transform it into a statement against racism.
The merger was praised today by former President F.W. de Klerk, who led the National Party and tried to transform it into a nonracial party, and denounced by the African National Congress.
Once Felix takes up residence in Oscar's West Side pigsty and starts trying to transform it into House Beautiful, their differences quickly lead to a war, which is summed up in Act III: OSCAR: I'll tell you exactly what it is.
SE is naturally a reaction to the embedded social malfunction and tries to transform it to a better and socially, environmentally, politically, or economically beneficial status.
The post was retracted immediately, and a statement of apology had been issued, but when I asked Marinescu, he just sighed, saying, "These are mistakes because the party is pretty new, and it's getting big, and it's very hard to control it… It's a movement, and we're trying to transform it into a party, and it's not exactly easy".
