Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...analysis when Dr. Kubie hit him where he lives, his work. Said Kubie: "You've written nothing but violent melodramas, which only succeed because of the violence of the time we live in." Williams' younger brother, Dakin, an amiable East St. Louis attorney and a convert to Roman Catholicism, drops broad hints in person and in print as to how Tennessee can achieve peace of soul. Says Tennessee amusedly: "If it would make him happy, I would have a deathbed conversion. It might help to distract...
...treated. In phenylketonuria (PKU), an infant is unable to metabolize phenylalanine (one of the basic components of many proteins) and is in danger of severe mental retardation. Treatment consists simply of giving the child foods that are specially processed to remove phenylalanine. In galactosemia. the inability to convert galactose (which the body derives from milk) to glucose, untreated infants are prey to fulminating, fatal infections, and survivors suffer severe physical and mental retardation and blindness. The answer is to cut out milk, or anything containing the galactose molecule...
...respectable profit in 1962-provided additional write-offs on the jet program do not exceed the $5 to $10 million the directors now predict. But before General Dynamics can realize the promise it once seemed to show, someone will have to give it the aggressive, even arbitrary, leadership to convert it from an artificial colossus to a unified corporation...
...boom has launched some oddities. Three Swiss funds invest solely in Scotch whisky futures, betting that the drinking public's thirst will force up prices by the time the liquor matures. In one of the whisky funds, an investor who wants to withdraw can, if he wishes, literally convert his shares into liquid assets. Another Swiss fund called "Berlin 1961" promised that its investments would go entirely to beleaguered West Berlin-a proposal that enraged Swiss bankers, who contended that the idea compromised Swiss neutrality...
...stock, reached for his saw. In a letter to the SEC, Kirby protested the Murchisons' proposal to split and reclassify the stock of Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, a $4 billion mutual fund complex currently controlled by Alleghany. Kirby clearly feared that if the Murchisons were allowed to convert all I.D.S. shares into voting stock as they proposed, their voting power in I.D.S. might exceed Alleghany's and allow them to retain control of the Minneapolis giant even if they should lose control of Alleghany...