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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bicentennial Man. For those who prefer Asimov's other talents, there are such tours de force as an introduction to binary numbers; an explanation, in language that even Dick and Jane can follow, of why it is possible (but not practical) to reverse the basic nuclear reaction and convert energy into matter; some witty Asimovian annotations on Shakespeare, the Bible and the poetry of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Byron; as lagniappe, he throws in a few limericks of the type An ability to dramatize. that family magazines do not reprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...pull things off the tax rolls as a tax dodge," Robert Silberman, vice president for property management at Harvard Real Estate Corporation said yesterday. "If we convert something, it is because the University perceives a real need for it," he added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Vellucci Requests University Keep Property on Tax Rolls | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...proposals also include provisions allowing landlords to convert their apartments to condominiums if 35 per cent of their tenants want to buy their apartments or if the city vacancy rate climbs above 4 per cent. This change should decrease "condo-conversion," City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser said yesterday...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Committee May Sanction Rent Hikes in Cambridge | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

...Delgado offered five proposals: 1) laws forcing proselytizers always to identify their organizations; 2) a required "cooling-off period" before deciding whether to convert; 3) spiritual "living wills" to forestall future conversion; 4) licensing of high-pressure recruiters; and 5) as a last resort, court-ordered psychiatry for converts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cult Wars on Capitol Hill | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...even more emphatic about his intentions: "An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along." As a conservative convert to Roman Catholicism, Waugh decried the aims of Vatican II, the un-Latinizing of the Mass and papal excursions too far from Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Years of Total Waugh | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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