Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes, will not dissolve those bonds but secure them in more mutually beneficial ways. Nor will that be an easy task. "We often think about peace as an absence of war," Lyndon Johnson reflected last week. "But in fact peace is a struggle, an achievement, an endless effort to convert hostility into negotiation, bloody violence into politics, and hate into reconciliation...
...pollution, a Japanese process can be used to convert fly ash into cinder blocks. Since the market is too small for commercial success, public subsidies would make sense; recovering waste at the source is almost always cheaper than cleanup later. There are some real prospects of profit in reconstituting other waste. Take sulfur, for example, which is in short supply around the world. While 26 million tons are mined a year, smokestacks belch 28 million tons of wasted sulfur dioxide, which could easily be trapped in the stack and converted to sulfuric acid or even fertilizer. Standard Oil of California...
...Massachusetts legislature was persuaded to convert the Springfield Technical Institute, a vocational school, into a state-run operation. The institute acquired instant academe by moving its facilities to some of the armory's 19th century buildings. The campus now includes parade grounds and handsome fences wrought from melted cannon poured into an artistic motif of pikes and halberds...
...students at Columbia first began demonstrating, a week and a half ago, because a girl as cool as the stewardess had not bothered to read the Times for quite a while. She got stoned, but she probably didn't vote. The Columbia students wanted to convert the cultural alienation, so pervasive in young America, into political alienation, which is only beginning...
...free-market auction," as Innovator Lapin calls it, will begin May 6 as only the first phase of the shake-up he has devised for Fannie Mae. Last week the Senate Banking Committee gave tentative approval to an Administration-backed bill that would convert the agency's main operation into a completely private company. If the bill passes, Fannie Mae will buy back the $142 million of its preferred stock now held by the U.S. Treasury. "We don't need the Treasury's money," says Lapin. Ultimately the corporation would be controlled by its 9,598 private...