Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joining Hughes as an $80-a-week driver two decades ago. His first job was to chauffeur the flock of Hughes' starlets. He went into the movie business himself with a drive-in theater in Idaho but returned to the Hughes fold after it failed. Rickard is a convert to Mormonism...
...stability. Sterling balances are pound deposits held in British banks by foreigners that can be withdrawn on a moment's notice; they are often dumped on foreign-exchange markets at the first sign of economic trouble. Callaghan, like many other Prime Ministers before him, wants to convert these volatile short-term deposits to long-term debts; precisely how this will be done and what kind of financial help the U.S. and West Germany will extend to accomplish it remain to be negotiated...
...reserves of all three fuels have dwindled, forcing economists to look ahead to the day when they might be unavailable at almost any price. "We eventually will have very little left but solar energy," says Erich Farber of the University of Florida at Gainesville. "Therefore we must learn to convert solar energy into every kind of energy we use in our daily lives." Nuclear-power proponents would disagree with Farber's philosophy, but concerns over safety and rising costs have slowed the rush toward fission power. Nuclear fusion plants, which promise virtually unlimited power, are probably decades away from...
...concedes this time around: "It's unreal. Lots of people can't wear minis." Bernard Ozer of Associated Merchandising Corp. of New York insists: "At most, it will appeal to trendy young girls going to discotheques. No woman is willing these days to convert a wardrobe from one style to another." Or get down on her knees-covered or not-to Paris...
...Santiago at the invitation of a private bank there. That doesn't make him a supporter of all the various and nefarious activities of the Junta. I gave a number of lectures in Moscow at the invitation of the USSR Academy of Sciences. I hope this doesn't convert me into a supporter of the Brezhnev regime...