Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows all the answers when appointed to a job in the Defense Department. "He rarely does." Civil Defense: "The concept of mass evacuation of high-density population centers and the burial of our citizenry in deep shelters would negate any kind of positive reaction to attack. It would convert our people into a horde of rabbits scurrying for warrens where they would cower helplessly while waiting the coming of a conqueror...
After this meeting, it was decided to include a curved seating arrangement, but this decision seemingly complicated the idea for using lifts to convert the normal proscenium seating to an open stage projecting into the audience, with seats on three sides. A number of different ways of converting the theater and moving some of the seats as well as the stage were considered...
...putting in long days to stay in power. Economically, the OAS sanctions intensify a recession already under way because of declining commodity prices and vastly increased spending for arms. With the political future clouded, private investment has almost stopped. The rich are holding onto their money and trying to convert pesos into dollars in the black market...
...Critics also argue with some truth that U.S. business, in its competitive haste to get new products to market, spends too little on basic or pure research to find new breakthroughs, too much on applied research to convert new discoveries into goods and services. Vice President Richard Nixon last week recommended that business join with states and the Federal Government to supply funds for a number of basic research institutes at universities, which would engage in the indispensable exploration of the unknown by "the basic research man . . . who will make the breakthroughs upon which all the rest of our science...
Most U.S. cities now pay about 25?to 35? per 1,000 gallons for their water, and the Government's aim is to find a method that will convert brackish or salt water at the same price. Other plants in the program are scheduled to be built at Webster, S. Dak., Roswell, N. Mex. and on the East Coast...