Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller scale, Califano has also made some strides, not without controversy. Calling cigarette puffing "slow-motion suicide," he has added $8.5 million to HEW's $30 million-a-year antismoking campaign. A reformed puffer, the Secretary is pushing the crusade with the righteous zeal of a convert. He argues that reduced smoking would cut back health problems?and the resulting HEW expenses...
...corporation will handle Boston properties. The most publicized complaints, from Boston Fair Share and Cambridge community groups, focus on the University's failure to pay taxes. But Harvard's tenants worry about their buildings' maintenance, or about possible eviction should Harvard decide to construct a new building, or convert a house into a day care center...
Unlike Hussein's Jordanian-born third wife. Alia, who died in a helicopter crash 15 months ago, Lisa will not, at least initially, be named Queen. Instead she will be a princess, with the Arabic name Nur el Hussein (Light of Hussein). Raised as a Protestant, she will convert to Islam...
...Bravo" to Paul Gray for his outstanding article on Gelsey Kirkland [May 1] and on the dance explosion in the U.S. I, too, am a fairly recent convert to the world of dance, and I can still vividly recall my first Sleeping Beauty at the Met, with Nureyev and Fonteyn. All it takes is one superb, electric performance like that to turn anyone into a ballet fanatic...
Photovoltaic cells made of silicon or cadmium sulfide, which can convert sunlight directly into electricity. Costs are very high, and existing installations are still only experimental...