Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barghoorn and Knoll believe that their primitive fossils-the oldest direct evidence of terrestrial life-are the ancestors of modern blue-green algae or photosynthetic bacteria, both of which convert carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. If they are correct, these organisms 3.5 billion years ago were already pumping into the atmosphere the oxygen upon which most of today's terrestrial life now depends...
...chances, but we couldn't convert and they could. They took advantage of the few mistakes that we made," Field said...
...owners, not the tenants who stand to suffer from housing problems in Cambridge, Clinton claims. "I hear some complaints that small owners just aren't making it. Seven or eight say that they are going to convert [to condominiums]--energy costs...
...predominantly elderly, Russian-born bishops turned instead to runner-up Ireney, a bishop in New England. In choosing a successor to Ireney, now 85 and ailing, the delegates in Montreal nearly gave a first-ballot victory to Hartford, Conn.'s, popular Bishop Dmitri, a Texas-born, former Baptist who converted to Orthodoxy as a teenager. But the bishops instead chose Theodosius. He comes from an Orthodox family in the church's Pennsylvania heartland and thus would be easier for older members to accept than a convert like Dmitri...
...nations. The middle and upper classes see him on TV answering phoned-in questions. Palau's two daily radio programs are broadcast widely across the continent. The message and the methods are modeled after those of Billy Graham, down to precrusade organization (by a staff of 17) and convert counseling...