Word: convert
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...publish any more such excellent articles I may convert from our Australian Rules football to your American game...
Nearly one-third of the world's 1,800,000 Latter-Day Saints have been baptized since McKay became president in 1951. Much of the growth stems directly from policy decisions he made shortly after taking office. He abandoned the church tradition of urging converts to settle in Utah (We were robbing ourselves of local leadership in the missions") and he authorized the construction abroad of new temples-previously limited to the U.S. and Canada-when membership growth warranted. He made the Mormons' aggressive missionary work more effective by suggesting that convert-makers ask for appointments instead...
...report, AEC urged heavier stress on development of "breeder" reactors, which will create more nuclear fuel than they consume. Present-model nuclear reactors operate through fission of scarce and costly uranium 235. Natural uranium is mostly U-238; less than 1% of it is U-235. Breeder reactors would convert nonfissionable U-238 into fissionable plutonium, or convert the fairly common element thorium into fissionable U-233 (neither plutonium nor U-233 is found in nature). A few days before the 20th anniversary of the first chain reaction, AEC announced that its experimental plutonium reactor had achieved a self-sustaining...
...permission to switch to the status of a holding company, which would control the railroad but be free to diversify outside of transportation. If SEC and stockholders approve as expected,* the I.C. will exchange its 3,135,415 shares with its stockholders on a one-for-one basis, convert itself into Illinois Central Industries Inc., and start diversifying next summer...
Some Britons who tend to demand new station houses and an end to deficits in the same breath sniff at "Dr. Beeching's bitter pills." Totally unruffled by criticism, Beeching says his goal is to convert the railways from "a political shuttlecock" into a lean, efficient business. Should he do it, Beeching would achieve distinction as a bureaucrat who disobeyed Parkinson's Law and actually managed to diminish a bureaucracy...