Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.

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This cultural transformation was marked by a change in the growth rate of return on assets from -8.7% to 14.1% over 11 years.

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We need a transformation in donor and family consent because the UK's family refusal rate remains one of the highest in Europe.

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It's been a 30-year transformation for Pittsburgh since the failing steel industry left the area with a 18.3 percent jobless rate in the early 1980s, said Dennis Yablonsky, head of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.

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