Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then he came to socialism, with a convert's religious fervor. After The Jungle, he turned out millions of words of social criticism attacking every injustice he saw: a corrupt press (The Brass
Nevertheless, radicals have had, and are likely to have, very little success in this attempt to convert the Workers into agents of the revolution. This is because the Workers believe deeply in the existing value-structure which necessarily is one that is designed to perpetuate the present relationship of power. Specifically, this is the ethic of individualism which says that each man must try to acquire as much wealth for himself as he possibly can. The index of a man's standing is measured exclusively in terms of the goods he possesses which ensures the smooth functioning of the growth...
...Ministry's reasoning was based on Halakha (religious law), which says that to be considered a Jew, a person must be born of a Jewish mother or be a convert to the faith. Shalit's wife Anne is a Scottish gentile who immigrated to Israel in 1960. Like her husband, she is an atheist, and she was never converted to Judaism...
...precedent for his case, says Shalit, was the court's decision regarding Father Daniel (TIME, Dec. 14, 1962), a Carmelite friar who sought admission to Israel under the Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to any Jew who wants to live in the country. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Father Daniel was born of a Jewish mother. In his case, the court ruled that Halakha did not apply and that on the basis of secular law and the common-sense opinions of men he would no longer be regarded...
Singapore's answer to such problems has been a massive effort to convert it self from Asia's largest warehouse to Southeast Asia's largest workshop. To attract industry, the government has channeled millions over the past three years into expanding power and water supplies, building roads and clearing factory sites. School graduates who would have followed family tradition by going into clerking or shopkeeping are being urged to train as technicians and engineers. To preserve responsible wage scales, the government this year passed laws trimming certain fringe benefits and reducing the unions' voice in management...