Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good position to get more. Two-thirds of the boilers that it makes are fired by coal, and the Carter Administration's energy program, to be announced April 20, is expected to contain provisions enabling the Government to order many factories and power plants to convert from natural gas to coal as a fuel (TIME cover, April 4). Even by simple arithmetic, B & W is an attractive acquisition candidate. In 1976 it earned $53 million on revenues of $1.7 billion-a profits-to-sales ratio slightly higher than United's own. Some Wall Street analysts are prepared...
...compelled to switch to coal as soon as possible. The cost to U.S. industry will be incalculably huge; the utility plants alone will be required to spend an estimated $75 billion on conversion. Tax credits and federal loans will be given to sweeten the wrench. Plants that cannot convert from gas will be taxed for its continued use. The energy plan may allow some relaxation of antipollution laws in order to speed up the transition to coal...
Into a Van. Kelly, who had performed about 70 similar missions in the past, seized Merylee at a shopping center last Aug. 5, forced her into a van and took her to a motel. There he began the increasingly common ritual known as deprogramming, in which the convert to some strange-sounding, all-encompassing religion is subjected to threats and arguments until he gives up his new faith. After five days of this, Merylee pretended to accept Kelly's arguments, was released, got back to the Hare Krishna temple in Manhattan and charged Kelly and her mother with kidnaping...
...Krishnas themselves. The grand jury indicted two leaders of the sect, Angus Murphy and Harold Conley, for "unlawful imprisonment" of Merylee, on the theory that she had lost her free will due to Hare Krishna "mind control." For good measure, the two leaders were also accused of brainwashing another convert, Ed Shapiro, 22, and of getting him to try to extort a $20,000 family trust fund from his father. Young Shapiro had once been worked on by Ted Patrick, the originator of deprogramming, but had also escaped by feigning agreement. "The thing that frightens me," Schwed told...
...because he lived nearby anyway. Drafts feels the decision was probably best for him but adds, "I have a sneaky feeling, though, not living here makes me miss a lot." He proposes that Harvard either establish a house for the disabled similar to the dormitory he lives in, or convert part of the Stillman Infirmary into disabled students' quarters, where the students would pay regular room and board charges and share attendants and facilities. (Because Drafts has not yet found the on-campus attendant he needs, he relies on friends to lift him from his wheelchair...